It's in dance that the film's strength lies, illustrating, through choreography, Acosta's more abstract - and more negative - emotions, including fear, loneliness and lust.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's in dance that the film's strength lies, illustrating, through choreography, Acosta's more abstract - and more negative - emotions, including fear, loneliness and lust.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film deviates from more caricatured tales of domestic brutality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film deviates from more caricatured tales of domestic brutality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What the film lacks in allegorical subtlety it makes up for in depth of emotion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What the film lacks in allegorical subtlety it makes up for in depth of emotion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A through-line in the work of writer-director Icíar Bollaín is her interest in representing a variety of female experience, in both private and professional spaces.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

A through-line in the work of writer-director Icíar Bollaín is her interest in representing a variety of female experience, in both private and professional spaces.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

At times profoundly moving, In a Foreign Land burns with indignation at the circumstances foisted on a generation who did what they were supposed to do but who have had little choice but to abandon the careers and futures they thought lay ahead of them.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

At times profoundly moving, In a Foreign Land burns with indignation at the circumstances foisted on a generation who did what they were supposed to do but who have had little choice but to abandon the careers and futures they thought lay ahead of them.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

With elements that are sadly all too recognisable, the familiar story is elevated by the strength of the performances and the decent pace and no-nonsense approach adopted by Bollaín.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With elements that are sadly all too recognisable, the familiar story is elevated by the strength of the performances and the decent pace and no-nonsense approach adopted by Bollaín.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film's heart is certainly in the right place, but its narrative is more of a scattergun affair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film's heart is certainly in the right place, but its narrative is more of a scattergun affair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -