“Las Letras is an exercise in (and exorcism of) outrage, a performative representation of indigenous Mexican professor Alberto Patishtán’s random arrest and erroneous 13-year imprisonment for a brutal slaying. Chavarría Gutiérrez’s camera stalks the countryside, ghostlike, observing wandering lost children and a woman’s balletic expression of grief, punctuated by Patishtán’s proud, hopeful jailhouse letters to his family.” —The Museum of Modern Art
THE LETTERS
A film by Pablo Chavarría
(Las letras, Mexico, 2015, 77 min. In Spanish and Tzotzil with English subtitles)
