The Letter (1999 film)

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 1678 French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette.[2][3][4]

The Letter
Directed byManoel de Oliveira
Written byManoel de Oliveira
Jacques Parsi
StarringChiara Mastroianni
Release dates
  • 21 May 1999 (1999-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 22 September 1999 (1999-09-22) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesFrance
Portugal
LanguagesFrench
Portuguese
Box office$766,920 [1]

The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.[5]

Cast

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2014-04-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Stratton, David (1 June 1999). "The Letter". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Letter". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. Holden, Stephen (28 September 1999). "FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS; Just an Old-Fashioned Girl, Pining for Elusive Perfection". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  5. "Festival de Cannes: The Letter". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2009-10-06.


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