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

External links

• The Letter at the Internet Movie Database
• The Letter at AllMovie