Synopsis
Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.
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Cast
- Rutger HauerBenjamin Praagh
- Juliet StevensonMother Teresa
- Max von SydowCeleste van Exem
- Priya DarshaniShubashini Das
- Kranti RedkarDeepa Ambereesh
- Mahabanoo Mody-KotwalMother General
- Tillotama ShomeKavitha Singh
- Vijay MauryaMaharaj Singh
- Vivek GomberAshwani Sharma
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
A biopic about Mother Teresa could have easily been a self-important slog, yet William Riead's The Letters proves a stirring and absorbing if not quite definitive drama. - 50
Movie Nation
A movie that won’t convert anyone, a film for the faithful who want to believe nothing but the best about Mother Teresa. Real life is rarely cut and dry, and dramatically flat, as this. - 42
The A.V. Club
The Letters feels dutiful, not artful. - 40
The New York Times
Though speechifying and mawkishness are thankfully scarce, the bland script gives her few chances to go beyond the expected formula. - 30
Austin Chronicle
The movie simply trudges along, tirelessly making its rounds, just like its holy sister walking impoverished streets with grim purpose. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
This earnest but painfully clunky film, though professional in tech respects and seemingly well financed, plays like the work of an ambitious high school history student. - 20
Village Voice
Riead's reverential portrait belies Teresa's thorny complexities and turns her into a single-minded proponent of work hard, pray hard. - 20
Variety
Opting for dutiful, reverent beatification over flesh-and-blood characterizations (or insights), the film is merely a clunky primer on how poor storytelling can make even the grandest of figures seem small.
