Letters to Father Jaakob's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
The kind of film that makes a truly lasting impression despite its brevity.
ABC
Valuable for what she hides and suggests more than for what she shows, the film manages to make us aware of our conscience with the set agenda and, after the days, we keep turning and looking for cracks.
Variety
The director?s magisterial control over the proceedings makes something fresh and heartrending out of predictable material, particularly for older, thoughtful audiences.
New York Times
Letters transforms a picture-postcard location and odd-couple narrative into a pretty, and pretty predictable, snooze. Yet the acting is flawless, the tone gentle and observational, and Leila's transformation, when it occurs, is unforced and unaccompanied by pious lecturing.
El Periódico
In the end the film yields to the manipulative tendencies that it had scrupulously avoided during 50 of its 74 minutes, but even so it is difficult to reject its emotional force.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote