The Letter (1999 film)

The Letter

Directed by	Manoel de Oliveira
Written by	Manoel de Oliveira Jacques Parsi
Starring	Chiara Mastroianni
Release dates	21 May 1999 (1999-05-21) (Cannes) 22 September 1999 (1999-09-22) (France)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France Portugal
Language	French Portuguese
Box office	$766,920 ^[1]

The Letter (French: La Lettre, Portuguese: A Carta) is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun. The film is loosely based on the 17th century French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette.

The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.^[2]

Cast

Chiara Mastroianni as Mme de Clèves
Pedro Abrunhosa as Pedro Abrunhosa
Antoine Chappey as M. de Clèves
Leonor Silveira as La religieuse
Françoise Fabian as Mme de Chartres
Maria João Pires as Maria João Pires
Anny Romand as Mme de Silva
Luís Miguel Cintra as M. Da Silva
Stanislas Merhar as François de Guise
Claude Lévèque as Le médecin de Mme de Chartres
Ricardo Trêpa as Intrus
Alain Guillo as Le directeur de Jouillerie
Jean-Loup Wolff as Le médecin de l'hôpital
Alexandre Nanaia
Marcel Terroux as Le Jardinier

References

↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=2869
↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Letter". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-06.

External links

The Letter at the Internet Movie Database
The Letter at AllMovie

Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira

Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves

Film	The Letter (1999) Fidelity (2000) The Beautiful Person (2008) Nous, princesses de Clèves (2011)

Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize

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