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Slant Magazine by

It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

A certain amount of work is required to stitch together a sense of the plot, but as is often the case in Zulawski’s films, the story is less the point than an excuse, a loose temporal conceit holding together flights of visual invention, verbal extravagance and male and female nudity.

The New Yorker by Richard Brody

It’s among the most visually extravagant films ever made.

RogerEbert.com by Scout Tafoya

One of the greatest science and moral fiction movies ever made.