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84
Viewer score based on 5 votes.

Critic Score

78
Critics' score based on 17 reviews.
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It could have done with fewer plot devices, but it is ultimately far more satisfying than countless less ambitious and risky films.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Norway's hallucinatory, edge-of-the-world beauty imbues the story with a woozy, alcoholic haze and a sense of the marginal spaces into which the messiest aspects of private life are shoved.Full Review

Leslie Camhi
Village Voice

It is difficult to watch, but it's also impossible to take your eyes off the screen. It does not blench at the things that Hollywood routinely blenches at: substance abuse, dying, family dysfunction, love.Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post

It is an uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.Full Review

Loren King
Boston Globe

Writer-director Hans Petter Moland (The Last Lieutenant, Zero Kelvin) has a fine eye for landscapes, but an even surer touch with actors.Full Review

F. X. Feeney
L.A. Weekly
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