” sets out to unpick the reasoning behind this bizarre national epidemic, filtering it through the Kamango family’s ugly pileup of divisions and tensions.’s non-competitive but audience-minded, socially conscious Frontlight program, “The Letter” is modest as cinema, with some technical rough edges that are unlikely to trouble viewers caught up in its lively, character-oriented activism.
“The Letter” occasionally makes a virtue of its less polished filmmaking, parlaying King’s restlessly handheld camerawork, in particular, into a kind of you-are-there integrity.
Ultimately, religious conviction is an unconvincing excuse for a malicious campaign of harassment that appears to have a simpler financial motive: Margaret’s sons and other relatives want her off her valuable ancestral land. Grotesque as it sounds, this is a typical story in modern-day Kenya, where the traditional, elders-first balance of tribal power and priority has been flipped by economic desperation.
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