Reviewing the film for the New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote, “If you want more, it’s because the worlds [Pawlikowski] opens up and his two impossible, irresistible lovers are so beguiling that you would like to linger longer, learn more, see more. The movie is filled with ordinary and surprising beauty, with gleaming and richly textured surfaces, and the kind of velvety black chiaroscuro you can get lost in. Its greatest strengths, though, are its two knockout leads, who give the story its heat, its flesh and its heartbreak.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times