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Louise (Simone Signoret) is one of those women. She and her crippled brother Gilles (Jean Rochefort) seem resigned to live out their days exchanging good-natured insults. Louise keeps house and her own counsel; the defiantly cheerful Gilles looks at life from a wheelchair, through a telescope lens. But there is untapped love in them both, and a desperate resolve. Louise places a personal notice in the local paper, asking to meet a "refined gentleman." To her shock and chagrin, the one respondent is Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free...
...show belongs to Simone Signoret. After 40 years in movies, Signoret has the sturdy, pouched, life-lined charm of an old duffel bag. She is a marvelous behavioral actress. Smiles and tears are easy enough, but no one is better than Signoret at sitting still, daring life to try and impress her. Luckily for her, in France actors are not asked to stay svelte and sexy into senility. The family doctor looked at Signoret and encouraged her to put on weight, go gray, show her age, be herself-and still be a star. At 61, she has earned her Letter...
...Sent A Letter to My Love will show at the Orson Welles for months. It is that type of film--unambitious, unchallenging, very pretty and quite small. Though it succeeds nicely, it puts on few airs, simply because it has no cause to. Designed as a vehicle for Simone Signoret (best known recently for Madame Rosa); this is the story of an aging spinster who lives with, and cares for, her wheelchair-bound brother, Gilles. Grouchy, though affectionate toward each other, their life seems as cold and sterile as the craggy Brittany coastline that Gilles (Jean Rochefort) perpetually watches through...
...loneliness crowds in on her, the matronly Louise (Signoret) places an anonymous ad in the local paper seeking a companion. There is only a single answer; it comes of course, from Gilles, the brother never suspecting he is writing to his sister. Their correspondence soon goes past the superficial ("I imagine my head on your breasts," Gilles writes in his second letter), and this secret sexual awakening, set against the innocent sister-brother (in some ways more like mother-son) relationship of Gilles and Louise, is the single intriguing theme of the movie...
...fish in water," says Actress-turned-Director Jeanne Moreau about her second stint behind the camera. The just finished film Adolescence deals with a 13-year-old Parisienne who goes to see her grandmother in the country and falls in love with a visiting doctor. The grandmother: Simone Signoret. "I was seduced by Moreau's persistence. I like to be chosen," says Signoret. She also likes her director. "Moreau gives actors intelligent explanations, as few directors who have never been actors can," she explains. As for Moreau, she regards directing as a step up. Says...