The Correspondence
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Produced by | Isabella Cocuzza Arturo Paglia |
| Written by | Giuseppe Tornatore |
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Jeremy Irons Olga Kurylenko Shauna Macdonald Rod Glenn Ian Cairns Anna Savva |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Fabio Zamarion |
| Edited by | Massimo Quaglia |
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| Distributed by | 01 Distribution |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €13 million |
The Correspondence (Italian: La corrispondenza) is an English-language Italian romantic film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Jeremy Irons and Olga Kurylenko in lead roles, and was released on January 14, 2016. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone.
A couple is kissing in a hotel room, astrophysics professor Ed (Jeremy Irons) and his lover the PhD student Amy Ryan (Olga Kurylenko). He wants her to reveal her most important secret to him, but she refuses. Ed leaves the room for the airport hoping to see her at his next conference at her University.
It is shown later that Amy met Ed at one of his conferences 6 years ago and she fell in love with his way of talking about astrophysics. Amy is working as a stuntwoman, who performs dangerous scenes that normally lead to the death of the character. She keeps communicating with Ed through video chat, e-mails, and packages. One day, Amy realizes he is not attending his mobile phone but receives some emails from him. When reading the last one, she notices a maple leaf hitting her window, she watches it for a moment before it flies away.
The next day, Amy attends Ed's conference, but she receives a message in her phone from Ed to leave the place, but she doesn't. She then learns that Ed died in Edinburgh some days ago. She was shocked that she still received messages from Ed's email account. Feeling confused, she goes to Edinburgh. First she tries to go to Ed's home, but she feels uncomfortable to see Ed's family. She then receives an email instructing her to go to see his lawyer. There she receives a package with a video message, where Ed apologizes to her for having left her alone, but he cannot reveal her he was sick.
Back home Amy decides to go to the same hotel where they shared the nights and she receives a package with one of his clothes and a letter instructing her to celebrate his birthday in his summer house in Italy. She travels there where she receives a package containing a new laptop and another video where he celebrates his birthday but decided to give her the laptop as a present. She spends the rest of the time seeing the places that he suggests her to visit. In the last night she receives another video message revealing that he knows her darkest secret, an accident in which she was involved and that killed her father. She angrily burns the CD with the video and sends an encrypted message (11 times Amy name) to cancel any message to be sent, and goes back home.
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