Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)





A young woman falls for a playboy musician and both of their lives are predestined to tragedy.

On the surface a very stirring woman's picture this masterpiece delves into a much deeper and utterly perverse subtext: the indifferent and hollow bon vivant versus the stalking and remorselessly loving woman.

A chilling moment, when she tells us that she spends every night below her beloved's window:

"Off I went, not home, but to the only place that had ever seemed home to me. Night after night... I returned to the same spot, but you never noticed me until one evening..."

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