Letters from War's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
An extraordinary docudrama [...] This may be the most beautiful film about war since Terrence Malick?s The Thin Red Line. It doesn?t aestheticise its subject, however, but rather evokes the power of words to make sense of horror and to cut through the bombast of empire.
El País
Love and perfect understanding towards the universe of the author, with an aesthetic as powerful as truthful, with a magnificent black and white [...] Ferreira adapts Lobo Antunes with his own personality, intelligence and poetry.
El Periódico
Stylized, in a beautiful white and black, it raises the interesting relationship between the image and the word read, rather than dialogue: we hear words.
Screen Daily
The film is a hugely ambitious evocation of Portugal?s recent colonial past.
Variety
Superbly evocative b&w lensing and poignant love letters are the main selling points for this recreation of an author?s experiences in Portugal?s Colonial Wars of the 1970s.
The Hollywood Reporter
It is practically a feature-length illustration of the (untranslatable) concept of saudade
Le Monde
To the point that the film, turned in black and white, laconic and contemplative, resembles at most a stylized case intended to make them better understand.
Cinemanía
The contrast between the read and the seen, the strength of the voice in off [...] A proper rhythm that the director knows how to shape.
ABC
A wonderful text, of a beauty, depth and feeling that upset, and an evocative image in black and white that saturates you with emotions and reflections.
Fotogramas
The film epistle seems to have been born to be spoken in Portuguese. The dulzona melancholy of the language permeates the images, turns them into faded photos.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote