The Letter Room Film Review
THE LETTER ROOM: FILM REVIEW May 7 Written By Teresa Xie Elvira Lind’s short comedy-drama The Letter Room is charming — but perhaps its most redeeming quality is not entirely attributed to its slowly winding and somewhat empathetic plot, but rather Oscar Isaac’s mustache-attached performance. From Ex Machina to Inside Llewyn Davis to Star Wars , Isaac is always such a pleasure to watch — time and time again the Guatemalan actor effortlessly transforms into roles it seems he was born to play. In The Letter Room , Isaac plays a prison corrections officer named Richard who has just been promoted to Director of Communications, which in real-time, is just a fancy title for the person who has to screen all the letters that come into the prison for potential threats, dangerous content, or smuggled-in substances. No real communication is involved, at least on Richard’s end, and the task he has been assigned is menial at best. From the grey-toned prison walls to g...