Letter From An Unknown Woman (U)
Q&A with Prof. Dr Victor F Perkins on Sun 13 Jun.
Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jun
Cinema £6.50 (£5.25)
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CloseDir: Max Ophüls
US 1948 87mins
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
The re-release of one of cinema’s most achingly poignant romances provides a luxurious swath of emotion.About to leave the city in order to avoid a duel, concert pianist Stefan Brand receives and reads a letter from a woman he can no longer remember – Ilse, who first nurtured a crush on him as a schoolgirl neighbour and whose later encounters with him were considerably more intimate. Both the flashback structure and Franz Planer’s long, sinuous camera movements trap the lovelorn heroine within a cruel cycle of obsessive longing born of romantic fantasy.
A wry mediation on memory, misplaced desire and the options open to women in patriarchal society, the film is at once darkly ironic and deeply moving.
Q&A with Prof. Dr Victor F Perkins from Warwick University’s Department of Film & Television Studies on Sun 13 Jun.
Dates & Times
| Sat 12 Jun | Cinema | 4:00pm | ||
| Sun 13 Jun | Cinema | 4:00pm |
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