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Title
La lettre [videorecording] / Paulo Branco présente un film de Manoel de Oliveira ; scénario et dialogues de Manoel de Oliveira ; une coproduction, Madragoa Films (Portugal), Gemini Films (France), Wanda Films (Espagne) ; produit par Paulo Branco ; réalisation, Manoel de Oliveira.
Published
[Paris] : DVDY Films ; [200-]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Inspired by the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette.
Bonus material: filmography of Manoel de Oliveira.
Widescreen.
Director of photography, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Valerie Loiseleux.
In French and Portuguese with French subtitles. Optional English, Portuguese and Spanish subtitles.
Summary
"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."--IMDb.com.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French; Portuguese
Added to Catalog
October 16, 2007
Credits
Director of photography, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Valerie Loiseleux.
Cast
Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira.
System details note
DVD; Region 2; PAL..
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Also listed under
Madragoa Filmes (Firm)
Gemini Films.
Wanda Distribución de Films.
DVDY Films.
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