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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Directed by
Max Ophüls
Not Rated
1948
87m
Drama
,
Romance
7.9
100%
85%
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A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
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Cast of Letter from an Unknown Woman
Joan Fontaine
Lisa Berndle
Louis Jourdan
Stefan Brand
Mady Christians
Frau Berndle
Marcel Journet
Johann Stauffer
Art Smith
John
Carol Yorke
Marie
Howard Freeman
Herr Kastner
John Good
Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger
Leo B. Pessin
Stefan Jr.
Erskine Sanford
Porter
Otto Waldis
Concierge
Sonja Bryden
Frau Spitzer
Patricia Alphin
Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Harry Anderson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Edit Angold
Middle-Aged Woman (uncredited)
Betty Blythe
Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Gabrielle Windsor
Ballet Girl (uncredited)
June Wood
Cashier (uncredited)
Judith Woodbury
Model (uncredited)
Mary Worth
Musician (uncredited)
Jack Worth
Officer (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman Ratings & Reviews
PopMatters
Michael Barrett
Its layers of interpretation and emotional meaning, combined with its impeccable style, yield an endlessly re-watchable film that changes, as film critic Molly Haskell observes, with time and with you.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A moving weepie woman's picture.
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
One of Hollywood's, and cinema's, grandest and most emotionally satisfying tales of unrequited love and self-sacrifice.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...a women's picture that nonetheless turns on male chauvinism.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Heartbreaking.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
For once, Fontaine's anguish seems justified, ensconced in Ophüls' signature tracking shots.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Gorgeously mounted Ophuls film.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Beneath the film's beauty lies the type of love that obsessed Ophuls: the unsuccessful kind.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A breathtaking, bitter, exquisitely orchestrated exploration of love and selfishness by Max Ophuls.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
[Ophuls] is renowned for his restless, mobile camera. ... As an active, "oppositional" element, mobility is associated, among other things, with Ophuls's attitude toward Viennese (and German) society ...
Parallax View
Sean Axmaker
[Max] Ophuls' first personal project in Hollywood and he injects this exquisitely stylish romantic melodrama with his continental sensibility.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
One of the greatest achievements in American film.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Remarkable romantic drama.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) is the classic romantic film - a lush tearjerker par excellence - of the bittersweet theme of unrequited, lost love
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
The trifling romantic-melodrama story nonetheless provided an ideal vehicle for the sumptuous mobile-camera style of Max Ophuls...
Austin Chronicle
In the hands of Max Ophuls, the stuff of penultimate melodrama becomes the stuff of exquisite observation and contemplation.
TV Guide
Watching it is like finding a locket you thought you had lost, one which contains the picture of someone who once broke your heart.
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