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It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
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New Times (L.A.) by David Ehrenstein
Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
40
Problematically structured, overly protracted and lacking in narrative fluidity.
90
Writer-director Gianni Amelio masterfully chronicles the ways two people can betray each other, and especially themselves, in the name of love.
38
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A ponderously slow experience.
75
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Longwinded, slow-starting but moving film.
60
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Wears its art, as well as its heart, on its sleeve -- so much so that I feel guilty for not liking it more.
70
The film, beautifully shot in widescreen by Luca Bigazzi, is surprisingly accessible and always engaging, if ultimately tragic.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
The sweeping, confounding conclusion therefore unfolds with a beauty and an ease that seem truly organic. The Way We Laughed has that feeling of being a work of art.
100
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.