SBS Film - Letters to Father Jacob

Postia pappi Jaakobille (original title) 2009

I LOVED this, and I like the original title even better (said like jacobi)
It's a quiet film, really only two characters, but there is a twist at the yes cheesey but bittersweet end.

Story : 9/10 for me (perhaps not everyone!) It was a great plot but then beautifully handled by the media of film. It didn't feel slow to me as the mystery around leila was intriguing enough.

Photography : 8.5/10 lovely, but not hard it's in a lovely isolated forest somewhere in Finland.

from the website:

Leila (Kaarina Hazard), a newly pardoned convict, agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob (Heikki Nousiainen) spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila sees their importance and finds herself cast in a new role.

Director

• Klaus Härö

Cast

• Heikki Nousiainen
• Esko Roine
• Jukka Keinonen
• Kaarina Hazard