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The Letter(Movie, 1999)

Original title: "La Lettre" (French/FR)
1h 47min | Genre: Drama
The LetterRating: 3.0/5 (with 44 votes)
The Letter (French: La Lettre, Portuguese: A Carta) is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun. The Film is loosely based on the 1678 French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. ()
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About The Letter

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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Additional Information

Production countries: Spain, France, Portugal
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR), Portuguese (PT)
Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/22/1999
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Carta"

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