Reviews
Love Letter (1995)
brilliant! this film was a love letter to the art of filmmaking.
This film is one of the most difficult to come by, it played in New York for 6 days at a small theater. I caught it at it's release in Asia in '96. This film is an eloquent poem dedicated to the art of film. It is thoughtful and thought-provoking. It is a movie from which you walk away in love with Japan and the beauty of its culture. A young woman whose fiance dies, decides to write a letter to him and sends it to an old address. When she begins getting replies, her curiosity is peaked, and we find that she is communicating with another young woman that has the same name as her fiance and in fact, grew up with him. The film is about the process of loving and letting go. It also contains one of the most emotional, heart-wrenching scenes ever caught on celluloid, the dialogue simply : "how are you?" "I am fine"
If you ever find this film playing, (in one of its many names "letters of love" or "when i close my eyes") I don't care if you must go by yourself. Go see it.