Mirage(Илузија)

New York Post by

Drab, despairing and pointless.

Variety by Eddie Cockrell

Superbly modulated yet unrelentingly grim, Mirage builds upon a remarkable performance from young Macedonian newcomer Marko Kovacevic to tell the tragic tale of a talented schoolboy driven to violence through neglect and manipulation.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Ristovski needs us to feel his nation's torment, and he succeeds.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

You just know that any film that opens with Nietzsche's aphorism about hope being an evil that only prolongs the torments of man isn't going to a comedy.

Film Threat by Phil Hall

The true power of the film comes from young Marko Kovacevic, who plays the poetic child lost in a family and culture where poetry has no meaning.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Ristovski wants the plight of a bullied moppet to serve as a sweeping metaphor for Macedonian struggle, but his miserablist excesses have the effect of converting realism into a graphic cartoon.