Chichester Cinema at New Park
Letter from an Unknown Woman
A hauntingly beautiful film from one of cinema’s greatest Romantics.
“By the time you read this letter, I may be dead …” These words are addressed to Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan), once a promising concert pianist in fin-de-siècle Vienna, now a rakish man-about-town. On receiving the letter one wintry night, he learns of a woman, Lisa Berndle (Joan Fontaine), who fell in love with him as a young girl living in the same apartment block and has continued to love him obsessively all her life, even having a child by him - a child of whose existence he was hitherto unaware.
Widely considered to be Max Ophüls’ masterpiece, ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ is a hauntingly beautiful film from one of cinema’s greatest Romantics. Re-released in 2010 for the first time in over 30 years, in a brand new 35mm print this is a wonderful opportunity to see one of the great 40’s film classics to touch the hearts and ravish the senses on the big screen.
USA · 1948 · Max Ophuls · 87min
