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Letter From An Unknown Woman
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
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Theatrical Release: 1948-07-16 DVD Release: 2012-10-16 Torrent Release: 25-05-2014 by user
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Movie Genre:
Drama, Romance
Runtime:
87 min.
Parental Rating:
Not Rated
Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations.
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In Vienna in 1900, Stefan Brand must face a duel the following morning. He has no intention of defending his honor however and plans to flee the city when he notices that he has received a letter from someone in his past. A struggling concert pianist at the time he met Lisa Berndle when she was just a teenager living next door. Brand has had many women in his life however and unaware that Lisa is genuinely in love with him, forgets all about her. They meet again but he only vaguely remembers ever having met her. Unknown to him she bears his child and eventually marries a man who knows of her past but loves her very much. When she runs into Brand many years later her love for him resurfaces and she is prepared to abandon her son and husband for him. Tragedy follows.
Sinopsis by IMDB
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) is the classic romantic film - a lush tearjerker par excellence - of the bittersweet theme of unrequited, lost love. Legendary European director Max Ophuls' deeply-moving, timeless film, considered his greatest and most successful American film but a film unlike most Hollywood films. It demonstrates his lyrical, gliding camera movements, long tracking shots, atmospheric melancholy and romantic dialogue, the recreated flavor of turn-of-the century Vienna, and the exquisite acting talents of its delicate blonde heroine - portrayed by 31 year-old actress Joan Fontaine.
Director Max Ophüls's considered love as much a curse as a blessing, and this heart-rending drama is one the finest expressions of his delicate aesthetic balance. Stefan (Louis Jourdan) is a self-serving and pleasure-seeking concert pianist in late 19th-century Vienna. Returning home the night before he's due to fight yet another duel he discovers a letter that opens, "By the time you read this, I may be dead." So begins the story of Lisa (Fontaine), the woman with whom he enjoyed a fleeting relationship ten years earlier and then abandoned, unaware she was pregnant. Told largely in flashback, Lisa's subsequent life turns out to have been a catalogue of disappointments, but throughout that time she clung to the memory of Stefan. Horribly, she even spent a second night with him, during which he failed to recognise her. Ophüls's gliding camerawork is fantastically agile, swooping in on his characters and then suddenly retreating, but this is really Fontaine's show - her Lisa is hopelessly romantic but there's also an impressive resilience at her core. A tragic tale in every way but beautiful to behold.
In the opening credits of this 1948 old-Hollywood classic, the legendary German director’s name is Americanised as ‘Max Opuls’. Somehow it’s appropriate, because from its painstakingly designed interiors to its sweeping, fluid camerawork, from its overblown score to its devastating central performances, ‘Letter From an Unknown Woman’ is suffused with opulence. But this is no Sternbergian exercise in glamour: in telling of young Viennese dreamer Lisa (Joan Fontaine) and her desire for an unattainable man (Louis Jourdan) and the high-style world he inhabits, Ophüls comes down on the side of the outsider, those of us with our noses pressed up against the glass. So for all its florid melodramatic trappings, this grand, heartbreaking masterpiece resonates with sad, simple truths: just because one can appreciate beauty, that does not make one beautiful, and just because one loves does not mean one is loved.
Watching it is like finding a locket you thought you had lost, one which contains the picture of someone who once broke your heart.
One of the greatest achievements in American film.
A weepie like they don't make them like anymore.
