Touzani has no time for throwing a pity party for these women, she shows instead that they deserve our admiration rather than our sympathy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Touzani has no time for throwing a pity party for these women, she shows instead that they deserve our admiration rather than our sympathy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a long way off the beaten track of traditional narrative, but it is nonetheless engaging and affecting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a long way off the beaten track of traditional narrative, but it is nonetheless engaging and affecting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The whistling language is fun - and, if anything, disappointingly underused - but it's the language of cinema that Porumboiu is really interested in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The whistling language is fun - and, if anything, disappointingly underused - but it's the language of cinema that Porumboiu is really interested in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The whole film adheres to the director’s credo that simple story-telling does not mean a lack of depth or subtlety, or roughness around the edges.

~ Richard Mowe -

The whole film adheres to the director’s credo that simple story-telling does not mean a lack of depth or subtlety, or roughness around the edges.

~ Richard Mowe -

Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The situations highlight a sense of existential loneliness in the modern world that might come with specifically Japanese trappings but which many elsewhere will recognise the emotional truth of.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The situations highlight a sense of existential loneliness in the modern world that might come with specifically Japanese trappings but which many elsewhere will recognise the emotional truth of.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Engages with an energetic and angry vitality as well as authenticity.

~ Richard Mowe -

Engages with an energetic and angry vitality as well as authenticity.

~ Richard Mowe -

Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.

~ Georgiana Musat -

Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.

~ Georgiana Musat -

Unflinching in its horrific subject matter and challenging in its construction.

~ Matthew Anderson -

Unflinching in its horrific subject matter and challenging in its construction.

~ Matthew Anderson -

The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

~ Amber Wilkinson -