i be a huge fan of the american film letter from an unknown woman ( ophuls or koch and 1948 ) and so i be ready to be sort of defensive about this one . but i must admit it be really very very good . one reason i do not mind have another version be that this one be so different . while the 1948 version be squarely in the romantic tradition and this film be very realistic . it be also much closer to the stefan zweig short story that both film be base on . the best thing about it i think be the amazingly convincing portrayal of a character who age from her early teen to her early thirty . i have never see that sort of thing do so well . the one flaw and i think and be the casting of wen jiang a the man who be the object of the woman erotic obsession . he just doesn not have the magnetism to get u to sympathize with her fixation on him . but then and maybe we aren not suppose to .