63
It is filled with imposing and beautiful imagery, though it becomes increasingly monotonous.
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63
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
It 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.
60
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
This one-of-a kind charmer casts an immediate and delightful spell.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The 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.
100
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
A concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.
70
Ultimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.
25
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen," only less amusing.
40
Allusive 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.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Has its own peculiar charm.