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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Chiara MastroianniMme de Clèves
Pedro AbrunhosaPedro Abrunhosa
Antoine ChappeyM. de Clèves
Leonor SilveiraLa religieuse
Maria João PiresMaria João Pires
Luís Miguel CintraM. da Silva
Stanislas MerharFrançois de Guise
Ricardo TrêpaIntrus
Anny RomandMme de Silva
Françoise FabianMme de Chartres
Alain GuilloLe directeur de Jouillerie
Claude LévèqueLe médecin de Mme de ChartresExplore the crew
- Director
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Screenplay
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Writer
- Jacques Parsi
- Producer
- Paulo Branco
- Director of Photography
- Emmanuel Machuel
- Editor
- Valérie Loiseleux