The 3 Rooms of Melancholia(Melancholian 3 huonetta)

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Shows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

A prodigious, almost spiritual experience, a luminous, challenging art movie out of the Tarkovsky school that happens to be about a real war and its effects on real children.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Consistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Superbly conveys its themes of despair and lost opportunities.

Village Voice by Joshua Land

Frustratingly little here grapples with the day-to-day realities of life in Chechnya and the surrounding areas.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Viewers will either be transported by Honkasalo's somber artistry or begging for someone to stick a gasoline-filled syringe into their veins...As art, 3 Rooms is magnificent, but as a viewing experience, it's almost impossible.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The film is a requiem for the living as well as for the dead.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

An achingly beautiful look at the most tragic victims of the longtime war in Chechnya: children.