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When You Read This Letter (French: Quand tu liras cette lettre) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco and Yvonne Sanson. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris.
On a tonal spectrum opposite the laconic moodiness of something like Le samouraï, Letter is a film of emotional and stylistic excess, using a luminously shot French Riviera as a grandiose backdrop to the sensationalized tale of a nun-in-training, Thérèse (Juliette Gréco), who must abandon the convent in favor of the seaside nightlife ...
Sep 11, 2018 · “When You Read This Letter,” the 1953 film in which all of this takes place, was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, which is a major reason it has been restored and rereleased.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
When You Read This Letter: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Juliette Gréco, Philippe Lemaire, Yvonne Sanson, Irene Galter. Therese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise.
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- Drama
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1953-07-26
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.
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- Titanus
- Jean-Pierre Melville
For many years fans of Jean-Pierre Melville have shrugged at his third feature, When You Read This Letter.
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WHEN YOU READ THIS LETTER. (1953) Sister Thérèse (legendary chanteuse and post-war existentialist icon Juliette Gréco) has to quit the convent to run the family stationary store in Cannes and support kid sister Irène Galter – who’s involved with lowest of low-lifes Philip Lemaire.
