Festival

… spectacle without substance: a film that gestures toward scandal and intensity but offers little emotional resonance or intellectual insight in return.

… a stylised masquerade that invites the viewer to surrender to its strange, campy logic.

… a profound reflection on memory, self-representation, and the violence of being interpreted by others.

The film’s greatest revelation is Sandra Hüller’s performance

… more elusive, more poetic, and arguably more intellectually generous than Joachim Trier’s widely praised work [Sentimental Value]

… exacting and believable, watching it can feel like you’re involved in an emphatically unhealthy situation.

… funny, fast-paced, and highly watchable …

If we still needed proof that despite his prolific career, Richard Linklater is a versatile filmmaker, this year he returns with two very different and yet not so different films.

… less concerned with resolution than with resonance.

...a winningly tough but profoundly sensitive tale...