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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceScott FoundasVillage VoiceScott FoundasPlayful and tense, loaded with wry cine-references and propelled by an ebullient energy...It seems more obvious than ever how much Rivette has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers—Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry—and expanded our sense of the possible.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThere are few artists better than Rivette at uncovering the magical (even at its most menacing) in the everyday.
- 30The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt's another example of the ever-widening gap between the real world and the fantasies of a kind of artistic temperament more concerned with random self expression than with the expression of coherent feelings or ideas about love, alienation, outrage, politics or even of movie-making. It shrivels the imagination instead of enriching it. [7 Oct. 1981]