After piquing my interest last year when it screened at the TCM Classic Film Festival, I decided to give When You Read This Letter (Quand tu liras cette lettre in French) a try during its 4K restoration tour of the country.

Released in 1953, When You Read This Letter is a French-Italian co-production directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco and Yvonne Sanson.

If I were to describe the genre, I would safely put in the realm of a drama or melodrama, although I have seen it also described as a noir.

To that, I say …

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