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The Letter
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Title: The Letter

Release Date: 22 Sep 1999

Runtime: 1h 47m

Genre: Drama

Director: Gemini Films, Wanda Films, Madragoa Filmes

Production Companies: Gemini Films, Wanda Films, Madragoa Filmes

Overview: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

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Average Vote: 6.045 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Mme de Clèves: Chiara Mastroianni
  • Pedro Abrunhosa: Pedro Abrunhosa
  • M. de Clèves: Antoine Chappey
  • La religieuse: Leonor Silveira
  • Maria João Pires: Maria João Pires
  • M. da Silva: Luís Miguel Cintra
  • François de Guise: Stanislas Merhar
  • Intrus: Ricardo Trêpa
  • Mme de Silva: Anny Romand
  • Mme de Chartres: Françoise Fabian
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