La lettre (1999)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	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

Storyline

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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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