Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

I can stop watching movies now. I've found the one I've been looking for.

Anna Imhof 🌸

Are all men this stupid? I think yes

cassandra

The key moment of this film is the second goodbye at the train, which suddenly becomes a moment of horror for Lisa. This horror should not occur, but the non-diegesis of Daniele Amfitheatrof's score combined with the sudden look of shock registered by Fontaine's face tell…

Peter Labuza

First of all, how do you forget Joan Fontaine’s face?? But seriously now, what a beautiful piece of American cinema. I love it when European directors make films for old Hollywood, Max Ophüls being one of them, one who fully understood the tragic dichotomy that few seem to…

noen

I feel like his valet could’ve saved her a lot of time and trouble if he’d just slipped her a note that said “sweetie, he’s really dumb ❤️ I know he’s pretty but he doesn’t have a lot going on upstairs ❤️ you’re gonna have to spell it out for him”

eely

i'm so thankful for feminism because imagine devoting your entire life to a man </3

mina

this is for all the girls who create narratives in their head and romanticize their lives instead of living (me)

liza

So marvelously complex, proposing a link between spectacle and romantic delusions. It's the only of Ophuls' American films to capture the dialecticalisms of his 1950's work, yet like those prior, remain true to its narrative constructs. Lisa doesn't just live in her…

Neil Bahadur

This is a dark and cynical take on unrequited love and obsession. Lisa tells her version of events yet the camera seems to present a slightly different reality which calls her narrative in to question.

Sam