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 ...
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| Chiara Mastroianni | ... | Mme de Clèves | |
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Pedro Abrunhosa | ... | Pedro Abrunhosa |
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Antoine Chappey | ... | M. de Clèves |
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Leonor Silveira | ... | La religieuse |
| Françoise Fabian | ... | Mme de Chartres | |
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Maria João Pires | ... | Maria João Pires |
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Anny Romand | ... | Mme de Silva |
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Luís Miguel Cintra | ... | M. Da Silva |
| Stanislas Merhar | ... | François de Guise | |
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Claude Lévèque | ... | Le médecin de Mme de Chartres |
| Ricardo Trêpa | ... | Intrus | |
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Alain Guillo | ... | Le directeur de Jouillerie |
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Jean-Loup Wolff | ... | Le médecin de l'hôpital |
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Alexandre Nanaia | ||
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Marcel Terroux | ... | Le Jardinier |
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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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22 September 1999 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Music by Franz Schubert
Performed by Maria João Pires
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