A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Manoel de Oliveira
Director
Jacques Parsi
Writer
Chiara Mastroianni
Mme de Clèves
Pedro Abrunhosa
Pedro Abrunhosa
Antoine Chappey
M. de Clèves
Leonor Silveira
La religieuse
Maria João Pires
Maria João Pires
Luís Miguel Cintra
M. da Silva
Stanislas Merhar
François de Guise
Ricardo Trêpa
Intrus
Anny Romand
Mme de Silva
La joven69%
Haute Couture61%
Chaos63%
La Cage60%
Hadewijch64%
Élisa63%
Merci la vie62%
Le Ravissement67%
Jeunes mères65%
Skin64%
Holy Lands61%
Eleanor the Great69%
Reading Lolita in Tehran73%
Houria69%
Babylon69%
Salomé62%
167%
What Maisie Knew71%
À pied d’œuvre66%
Le ciel attendra69%
