The Letter
The Letter

The Letter

La Lettre

Release date : 1999-09-22

Production country :

France,

Portugal,

Spain

Production company :

Gemini Films,

Wanda Films,

Madragoa Filmes

Status : Released

Durasi : 107 Min.

Popularity : 0.794

5.85

Total Vote : 10

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.