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User Rating:
6.5/10   348 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Manoel de Oliveira (scenario and dialogue)
Madame de La Fayette (inspired by the book "La Princesse de Clèves")
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Release Date:
22 September 1999 (France) more
Genre:
Plot:
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Reviews:
Laughable more (5 total)

Cast

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Chiara Mastroianni ... Mme de Clèves
Pedro Abrunhosa ... Pedro Abrunhosa
Antoine Chappey ... M. de Clèves
Leonor Silveira ... La religieuse
Françoise Fabian ... Mme de Chartres
Maria João Pires ... Maria João Pires
Anny Romand ... Mme de Silva
Luís Miguel Cintra ... M. Da Silva
Stanislas Merhar ... François de Guise
Claude Lévèque ... Le médecin de Mme de Chartres
Ricardo Trêpa ... Intrus
Alain Guillo ... Le directeur de Jouillerie
Jean-Loup Wolff ... Le médecin de l'hôpital
Alexandre Nanaia
Marcel Terroux ... Le Jardinier
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Carta (Portugal)
A Princesa de Clèves (Portugal) (working title)
La carta (Spain)
La princesse de Clèves (France) (working title)
The Letter (Europe: English title)
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Runtime:
107 min
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Color:
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13
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4 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
Laughable, 9 October 1999
2/10
Author: Danilo Jurisich from Vancouver

Scarcely worthy of comment, except to say that "Eyes Wide Shut" would have been much better if Tom Cruise's character had a similar fate to Mr. Cleves (to the tune of the high piano note playing over and over).

Although I was enjoying it at first, I began to suspect that something was awfully awry during the drawing room scene where 'the accident' was revealed in the news.

It was all downhill from there

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