Venice. Lettere dal Sahara.

"Lettere dal Sahara is the title of a collection of essays/articles on Africa by Alberto Moravia, published between 1975 and 1981," writes Camillo de Marco at Cineuropa. 25 years on, "the great Sicilian documentary filmmaker Vittorio De Seta has used the same title for a film suspended between fiction and reality."

De Seta returns with his first film in 13 years "with a long, heart-felt, but ultimately uninvolving story about an African youth struggling to survive in Italy," writes Deborah Young in Variety. "Despite pic's good intentions and De Seta's still keen eye for capturing striking images, Letters From the Sahara is likely to disappoint those who discovered the 82-year-old director through his powerful neorealist-inspired shorts of the 50s and such milestone fiction films as Bandits of Orgosolo and Half a Man."

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