One Paragraph Movie Review: Letter from an Unknown Woman

Three hundred and twenty-third film: Letter from an Unknown Woman, a film from 1948 set in 1900 that, when viewed in 2024 feels very recognisable indeed. Told via a deathbed letter voice-over, a teenager falls in love with a musician and essentially stalks him across decades until he notices her. Her infatuation blinds her to the fact that she’s basically watched him being a multi-partner player for decades, she falls pregnant to him during a brief dalliance, and with her son and a sort-of understanding husband she imagines a lifetime romance that didn’t exist, while the musician struggles to remember her from his long line of conquests. Ladies. This film was made seventy-six years ago, but we haven’t learned not to date musicians. A very good movie with a whole bunch of themes and messages that, until AI eventually makes all our music, we will continue to ignore. Three and a quarter dusty rug-beatings out of five.