The Letter (1999)

Original title

La Lettre

Directed by

Manoel de Oliveira

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Portugal

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married woman confesses her feelings for another man to her friend who is a cloistered nun. The film follows her emotional struggle with love and duty.

romanticmelancholicslow-burncontemplativeintimatepoignantrestrainedelegiac

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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