Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The parallel stories don't always dovetail with each other smoothly, but the acting is strong and the atmosphere is powerful.
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Austria, Germany, Switzerland · 2003
2h 0m
Director Barbara Albert
Starring Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich, Marion Mitterhammer
Genre Drama, Romance
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Following the death of a woman, Manu, in a car accident, residents of a small Austrian town reel from her death. Following stories of her daughter, husband, friends, and more, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The parallel stories don't always dovetail with each other smoothly, but the acting is strong and the atmosphere is powerful.
An often compelling drama, marbled with dry humor and flecked with the supernatural, that provides food for thought but doesn't quite reach the brass ring.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Despite the melodramatic plot twists, there's little emotional resonance to the proceedings, and the film's attempts to link them in metaphysical fashion prove overly ambitious and pretentious.
An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
At first I thought this was a Michael Haneke knockoff, but it's more depressing and less edifying than most of those narrative experiments, which is why I eventually tuned it out.
Austrian auteur Barbara Albert uses complex mathematics, chaos theory and the music of Dutch pop sensation A-Ha to explore the connections that link a group of disparate characters.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
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