Lettres secrètes

Titre original : The Love Letter

Téléfilm
1998
PG
1h 39min

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7,2/10

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Jennifer Jason Leigh and Campbell Scott in Lettres secrètes (1998)

Fantasy Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langue20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.

Réalisation
- Dan Curtis
Scénario
- Jack Finney
- James S. Henerson
Casting principal

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NOTE IMDb

7,2/10

2,5 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Dan Curtis
Scénario
- Jack Finney
- James S. Henerson
Casting principal

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire au total

Anecdotes
Based on a short story of the same name by Jack Finney. The story was first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on August 1, 1959, and reprinted in the same magazine on January/February 1988.

Gaffes
Lizzie's hair is historically incorrect. She wears it in loose curls and has her photograph taken with her hair down. No woman in 1863 would wear loose curls or be photographed with her hair down. Hairstyles for women in the time period wore hair severely parted in the middle, draped over the ears in order to hide most of the ear except a small part of the earlobe, and fastened in the back of the head in a knot, either smooth or braided. All young women who were eligible for marriage and certainly married women wore their hair up.

Citations
Elizabeth Whitcomb: The hard truth is we are doomed to be chaste. To never touch each other, hear each other, see each other... so what harm can there be to write to each other?

Connexions
Edited into Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

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Top-notch Time Travel / Romantic Fantasy

Unknown in Europe, this movie was recommended by someone from the States and I certainly wasn't disappointed once I'd received the DVD and watched it! On a par with "Somewhere in Time" and similar in some respects to "A Message from Charity" which was one of the "New Twilight Zone" episodes, this film is beautifully made and a real pleasure to watch over and over again. In fact nowadays, many of these so-called "TV Movies" are actually better than those made for the cinema !!

Plots in time-travel movies cannot of course be logical but this film had a very reasonable and believable plot ( bar, of course the way the letters were supposed to travel in time ) but when you watch films of this nature, there is no point in worrying about details of that kind.

The sets and picture quality were magnificent and I found the ending totally satisfactory although I would have perhaps wished the movie to continue on so that we see romance developing between Campbell Scott and the lady in the cemetery. I had already seen Campbell Scott in a film called 'Dying Young ' and do like this actor very much. This film was just suited to me as I don't really like time-travel movies with tons of special effects as they dont really appear believable ! So I hope people will make more movies like this because at present it is true that they are rather thin on the ground. And we do need doses of romantic fantasy to whisk us out and above of the dreariness of modern life !!