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Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times: The film boasts subtle performances and curious situations with unpredictable outcomes. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Liska, who looks like a Central European version of the young Harvey Keitel, has a kind of pitch-perfect opacity. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Directed by Bohdan Slama, it deals with weighty issues -- loneliness, sexual identity, love (straight and gay) -- in a quiet, intelligent fashion. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a movie that demonstrates, if you'll pardon the sports metaphor, how deep the bench is in Eastern European film. Read more

David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle: The film is graced with lovely performances by Pavel Liska as the teacher, Zuzana Bydzovska as Marie and Ladislav Sedivy as the boy. Read more

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's the kind of film that Hollywood used to excel at but no longer seems interested in making. Read more

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Ella Taylor, Village Voice: This sweetly ingenuous film, written and directed by Bohdan Slama, is a lot less sentimental about cows and flowers than it is about its human protagonists, who fall domino-like in love with churls who won't love them back. Read more

Washington Post: Despite all the pain and self-loathing of its wounded characters, it's a pretty, heartwarming picture that tells us everybody needs somebody to help shatter that ol' boulder for good. Read more