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Overview
Lettres d’amour is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1942,
directed by Claude Autant-Lara.
The film stars Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Julien Carette and André Alerme.
It has also been released under the title: Love Letters.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
France, at the time of the Second Empire. Zélie Fontain is the post mistress in
a small provincial town. The wife of the town’s prefect has a secret lover in Paris
who is ardent to express his love through his letters. Zélie agrees to receive
the letters, thereby hoping to avoid a scandal. Unfortunately, Zélie proves
not to be the most reliable of confidantes...
Film Review
The enchanting Odette Joyeux gives arguably her best performance in this delightful piece
of satire. The film allows its director, Claude Autant-Lara, to express a
similar anti-Bourgeois sentiment to that seen in his other works of this period, notably
Douce (1943).
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