Letter from an Unknown Woman (Olive Signature) (Blu-ray)
This is the love every woman lives for…the love every man would die for!
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 5, 2017
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Fontaine & Louis Jourdan | |
Performer: | Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, Art Smith, Carol Yorke, Howard Freeman & Erskine Sanford | |
Directed by | Max Ophüls | |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent | |
Screenplay by | Howard Koch | |
Composition by | Daniele Amfitheatrof | |
Art Direction by | Alexander Golitzen | |
Produced by | John Houseman | |
Director of Photography: | Franz Planer |
Entertainment Reviews:
One of the greatest achievements in American film.
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Combustible Celluloid
A breathtaking, bitter, exquisitely orchestrated exploration of love and selfishness by Max Ophuls.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
A weepie like they don't make them like anymore.
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Independent (UK)
Of all the cinema's fables of doomed love, none is more piercing than this.
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Time Out
Remarkable romantic drama.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 5/5 --
One of Hollywood's, and cinema's, grandest and most emotionally satisfying tales of unrequited love and self-sacrifice.
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Goatdog's Movies
Ophuls' masterful balance of viewpoints allows the viewer to perceive the long flashback that constitutes the film's main body as both a literal embodiment of Lisa's romantic fantasy and a critique of said romanticism.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is set in Vienna at the turn of the century, an era Ophüls loved and had used in LA RONDE and LIEBELEI. Joan Fontaine gives a moving, heartfelt performance as Lisa Berndl, a romantic young woman who falls in love with the handsome concert pianist Stephan Brandt (Louis Jourdan). After a brief affair, which she takes for love, not seeing that he is just a philanderer, he leaves for a concert in Italy and never returns to the now-pregnant Lisa. She bears the child herself and later enters into a stable marriage, although one lacking the passion and love she still feels for Stephan. Ten years later, when he returns to Vienna, Lisa attempts, at the risk of her marriage, to see if he loves, or even remembers her. Fontaine and Jourdan perfectly project the feelings of a woman in love and a man too selfish to notice or care.
Written by Howard Koch, the co-author of CASABLANCA, from a novel by Stephan Zweig, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is generally described as a "woman's picture" because of its theme of unrequited love. But this somewhat pejorative description hides what in acting, writing, camera work, atmosphere and emotion is not just one of Max Ophüls' crowning achievements, but one the finest examples of how all elements needed to make a great film are brought together.
Written by Howard Koch, the co-author of CASABLANCA, from a novel by Stephan Zweig, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is generally described as a "woman's picture" because of its theme of unrequited love. But this somewhat pejorative description hides what in acting, writing, camera work, atmosphere and emotion is not just one of Max Ophüls' crowning achievements, but one the finest examples of how all elements needed to make a great film are brought together.