An undelivered letter in this movie?
It's been a while since i've seen this movie so i can't remember!
I thought there was someone who wrote Mathilde a letter telling her what had happened but it got lost or withheld..
Does anyone know?
I don't recall any undelivered letters in the film....maybe you're thinking about something from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot?
RIP Ian....
There was an undelivered letter, but it wasn't about her. It was the letter that said that the 5 prisoners (that were supposed to be executed) were allowed to go home, if I remember correctly. But the guy didn't deliver it, and the guys (or they thought) got killed, thereforem creating the mess.
"I can't take this. You just said your whole life was in it."
"You already did." MAD
What letter was that? Was it the letter that the fat guy dropped into his bathtub, or was it the letter that one officer tore up and used one piece to fix his magnifying glass? Were these letters about the same thing or were they different?
shareI was talking about the letter that the fat guy dropped into his bathtub. And honestly, I haven't seen this movie in months, and I can't remember an officer tearing up a letter. The letter the fat guy tore up was about excusing the prisoners, though.
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Thanks for your reply. I have just watched the relevant parts again. In both cases, the officer (whom we called "the fat guy") was Commandant Lavyouye. We first saw him when Lieutenant Esperanza (he was the first guy that Mathilde was able to interview in her search for Manech) showed him the order to send the five to no man's land, and he dropped it into his bathtub. Then later, when the letter for the pardon came, he was looking at nude photos and he just tore the letter up and used one piece to fix his magnifying glass. Later, Tina (lover of Angel, one of the condemned men) tied him up in bed and fired her gun that caused broken glass to fall on him.
shareThat makes much more sense. I'll have to go back and watch this movie again. Is Lieutenant Esperzanza the one who, after Manech got his hand shot, wanted to just let go of it and let Manech go home?
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Not sure, but I don't think he was the one. Esperanza was in charge of bringing the five men to no man's land to leave them there, and my impression is that he might not even know Manech or the other four men until the night before.
shareI thought that chronologically, he tore up the letter pardoning the prisoners first. Later, when he was brought the report on the five prisoners' fate, he dropped it in the bathtub to obscure the writing and cover his tracks, because he was never supposed to have sent the five over the top in the first place
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