When you read this letter

When you read this letter is a film free - Italian carried out by Jean-Pierre Melville and left in 1953.

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The parents of Therese and Denise Voise have just died and Therese cancels her imminent entry with the convent to deal with her younger sister. Max, young mechanic and unrepentant seducer, misuses Denise who then tries to put an end to her days. In repair, Therese then asks max to marry Denise. It makes pretense accept with the intention alluring Therese in her turn. This one, sensitive to its charm, distinguishes nevertheless its tortuous objectives and, faithful to its religious engagement, will be put to have about it to save this heart in perdition. It will not be able to oppose the Destiny which will strike max mortally whereas it tried to flee with an amount of money substituted for Denise…

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Comment of Juliette Gréco: Jean-Pierre Melville will offer to Jujube the principal feminine role in When you read this letter . Philippe Lemaire, the god of the young women and less young people, will be his partner. Initially, Jujube will wear the dress of nun for the needs for the scenario and will be delighted strongly and secretly by the thing. The film will receive warm welcome, without more. But Jujube benefitted from each moment spent with Melville which she adores and admires. She will marry on this occasion the father of her daughter, fair, charming, merry Philippe Lemaire. The very good too beautiful actor.
Comment of Michel Grisolia and Francoise Mallet-Joris: When you read this letter , realistic melodrama of Jean-Pierre Melville, is intended to prove that the author of the Silence of the sea and the Enfant terribles adapted according to Jean Cocteau can be a commercial scenario writer, a man of the spectacle.
Comment of Jean-Pierre Melville: Of a very beautiful scenario, of Jacques Deval, I made a film which could just as easily have been signed by any of the French realizers of this time. I like Philippe Lemaire and certain moments of Gréco as a nun.

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