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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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: December 5, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1948
  • Label: Olive

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User Ratings: 2,609
Rating: A- -- A moving weepie woman's picture. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 11, 2012
One of the greatest achievements in American film. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Nov 18, 2008
Rating: 5/5 -- A weepie like they don't make them like anymore. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Feb 16, 2010
Remarkable romantic drama. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Aug 8, 2008
A breathtaking, bitter, exquisitely orchestrated exploration of love and selfishness by Max Ophuls. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
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
Dec 1, 2006
[Max] Ophuls' first personal project in Hollywood and he injects this exquisitely stylish romantic melodrama with his continental sensibility. Full Review
Parallax View
Feb 19, 2012

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.

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  • UPC: 887090601504
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