There’s a lot going on here but first time feature director Kate Dolan weaves all her narrative threads together seamlessly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a lot going on here but first time feature director Kate Dolan weaves all her narrative threads together seamlessly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Divorced of context, this is a touching little film, a moment of creation, recollection. As an homage, a piece of Kubrickania it becomes something else, something arch.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Divorced of context, this is a touching little film, a moment of creation, recollection. As an homage, a piece of Kubrickania it becomes something else, something arch.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Fascinating and educative.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Fascinating and educative.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Nobody sneaks up on you, light-footed, perplexing, hilarious, quite the way Nanni Moretti does with his scenes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Nobody sneaks up on you, light-footed, perplexing, hilarious, quite the way Nanni Moretti does with his scenes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film captures the orgiastic nature of a society that has no shame.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film captures the orgiastic nature of a society that has no shame.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Allio deserves a medal for coaxing some miraculous performances out of his actors.

~ Caro Ness -

Allio deserves a medal for coaxing some miraculous performances out of his actors.

~ Caro Ness -

There is nothing to temper all the teenage angst bullshit.

~ Donald Munro -

There is nothing to temper all the teenage angst bullshit.

~ Donald Munro -

Magalhaes is superb throughout and perfectly in sync with the childlike perspective on events that Pesce brings us.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Magalhaes is superb throughout and perfectly in sync with the childlike perspective on events that Pesce brings us.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sometimes a film is interesting despite its director.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sometimes a film is interesting despite its director.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's never entirely clear how much of what is happening might be visible to others and how much exists in the shared imaginary between mother and child.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's never entirely clear how much of what is happening might be visible to others and how much exists in the shared imaginary between mother and child.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Far from dull, not as camp as you might expect, emotionally at a high pitch, expertly directed and nudgingly naughty.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Far from dull, not as camp as you might expect, emotionally at a high pitch, expertly directed and nudgingly naughty.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -