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Bookmark this pageLetter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Director: Max Ophüls
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From Time Out Film Guide
Of all the cinema's fables of doomed love, none is more piercing than this. Fontaine nurses an undeclared childhood crush on her next-door neighbour, a concert pianist (Jourdan); much later, he adds her to his long list of conquests, makes her pregnant - and forgets all about her. Ophüls' endlessly elaborate camera movements, forever circling the characters or co-opting them into larger designs, expose the impasse with hallucinatory clarity: we see how these people see each other and why they are hopelessly, inextricably stuck.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Max Ophüls
Producer: John Houseman
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke, John Good full cast
Duration: 90 mins
US Release: Apr 28 1948
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