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Love Letters

1942 · 92 min

A genteel, talky period drama where whispered letters and small-town gossip slowly turn into a scandal of manners and class.

Directed by
Claude Autant-Lara
Genres
Drama
Starring
Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant
Overview
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.

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Directed by
Claude Autant-Lara
Genres
Drama
Starring
Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant
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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • love
  • deception
  • science
  • gender
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Claude Autant-Lara
Written by
Maurice Blondeau, Jean Aurenche
Starring
Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant, Jacqueline Champi, Jean Parédès, Ariane Murator, André Alerme, Julien Carette
Music
Maurice Yvain
Cinematography
Philippe Agostini
Runtime
92 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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