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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenA concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.
- 88Boston GlobeBoston GlobeAstounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching. In short, it's the kind of ambitious little film that can leave critics in a swoon and American moviegoers scratching their heads.
- 70Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandUltimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldHas its own peculiar charm.
- It is filled with imposing and beautiful imagery, though it becomes increasingly monotonous.
- 63New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardIt may take a half-hour to get one's bearings, but there's a payoff in the subsequent charm of this nearly wordless, surreal comedy set in a decrepit bathhouse in Bulgaria.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThis one-of-a kind charmer casts an immediate and delightful spell.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe film's tone is a matter of taste -- the more you enjoy the melancholy silent comedies of Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, the more likely you are to embrace its sensibility -- but it's undeniably the product of a singular and beautifully realized vision.
- 40L.A. WeeklyRon StringerL.A. WeeklyRon StringerAllusive as all hell, Tuvalu's slapstick allegory of European socioeconomic upheaval in the 20th century opens with a spoof of "Breaking the Waves" lofty coda, then races through a mise en scène that's equal parts Tarkovsky, Méliès and the Brothers Quay.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen," only less amusing.