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Sweet, funny, sad and profound -- the sort of film that becomes more remarkable when you realize it's based on someone's real life.Full Review

Jonathan Curiel
San Francisco Chronicle

A funny, sad and absolutely lovely film.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

For an exquisitely melancholy story steeped in a sense of the past as a succession of great waves of political, ideological and economic change, it's fitting that the movie should end with an underwater sequence. It looks like a dream of a memory of a place about to be wiped out by the next great flood of history.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

If the movie is straightforward and predictable in its attitude, it also exudes a sort of documentary lyricism.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

In the end, it's a lovely little movie about very big things, and the smallness both illuminates it and keeps it from greatness.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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