Summary
A record of the epistolary encounter between French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the breakaway Caucasian state of Abkhazia, Letters to Max is both a chronicle of a developing friendship and an ingenious, unusual essay film about the inherently speculative nature of nationhood.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+18)
Critics 86Audiences 68GoodWatch 76
Tomatometer86%
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 43 min
A typical length for documentaries, +7 min on the typical 96
typical 96103Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 136 countries
+126Released
2014
September 12, 2014
12 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
AbkhazianRussianMade in
France
Directing · 1
- Eric Baudelaire Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Editing · 1
- Laure Vermeersch Editor
Sound · 1
- Juliette Navis Sound Recordist
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