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The Letter

The Letter

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Production year1999
The Letter

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    Mademoiselle de Chartres had a first heart-breaking experience : she has been deserted by fickle young man. One night , a friend of her mother's, Mrs Silva, the wife of the director of the Gulbenkian foundation, introduces her to a widely-reputed doctor, Jacques de cléves. He was smitten by Mademoiselle de Chartres from the moment he first saw both she and her mother choosing a necklace in a famous jewellery store in the palace vendôme. She accepts his marriage proposal, although feeling no passion for him. However, passion wil br stirred, despite her better instincts, by a fashionable singer, Pedro Abrunhosa...

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    • Type : Feature film
    • Genres : Fiction
    • Sub-genre : Psychological drama
    • Production language : French
    • Coproducer countries : France, Portugal
    • Original French-language productions : Unspecified
    • Nationality : 50% French (France, Portugal)
    • Production year : 1999
    • French release : 22/09/1999
    • Runtime : 1 h 47 min
    • Current status : Released
    • Visa number : 94. 934
    • Visa issue date : 07/09/1999
    • Approval : Yes
    • Production formats : 35mm
    • Color type : Color
    • Aspect ratio : 1.66

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    I immediately foresaw the difficulties involved in setting this story Madame de la fayette's era. At the same time, i thought , given that itis the drama of strong contrsts, if i recreated the conflict, setting it in a society as permissive as ours is today when it comes to love, the dramatic situations would be even deeper. The moral code controlling and thwarting love was anachronistic, and i thought it interesting to accentuare this by making Madame de Cléves' object of passion a pop singer and her confidant a anun who was once childhood friend. I was then overcome by the desire to accompany this sad, intimate story of passion with fragments of a social vision. They would show the disturbances that now rattle, with the same force as cruelties of pas times, this incorrigible world that we live in.

    Manoel de Oliveira-Director, excerpt from the press folder.