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The Letter (1999) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1999 · 107 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Starring
- Chiara Mastroianni, Stanislas Merhar, Françoise Fabian, Leonor Silveira, Maria João Pires, Ricardo Trêpa
A refined, melancholy young woman marries a caring physician who adores her, yet she feels only affection. Unintentionally she falls for poet‑performer Pedro Abrunhosa, who reciprocates. She confides in a nun friend and later her husband. Jealousy consumes the husband, who wastes away; after his death she can marry Pedro, but her decisions and explanations, especially to the cloistered friend, form the film’s core, contrasted with convent life and Abrunhosa’s stage presence.
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