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'Undoubtedly a genius...Kitano’s visions explode with emotional power'
LES INROCKUPTIBLES
'A thunderbolt of contemporary cinema'
LE MONDE
'Kitano’s sparest and most painterly film yet, characterized by emotional rather than physical violence'
VILLAGE VOICE
'...ravishingly beautiful...combination of realism and extreme artifice...'
HERALD TRIBUNE
'Kitano is back in form with this three-part love story'
Geoffrey Macnab - THE INDEPENDENT
'Kitano's purest exercise in aesthetic experimentation...'
Tom Charity - TIME OUT
'...extraordinary new film...'
'...the sense of aesthetic adventure is palpable...'
Tony Rayns - LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PROGAMME 2002
'A triptych of forlorn love stories... visually it's SPELLBINDING and ENTIRELY ORIGINAL'
Tom Charity - TIME OUT
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'...the film draws on bunraku puppet theatre conventions and Takeshi Kitano`s own painting aesthetic to create a series of heavily stylised, often staggering beautiful tableaux.'
'A true original'
TIME OUT - LFF SUPPLEMENT
'..Takeshi Kitano`s ravishing Dolls substitues the director`s characterstic eruptive violence with placid but equally emotional betrayal.'
Nicole Armour - FILM COMMENT (Toronto Film Festival)
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'...Dolls- a daring tragic triptych on the nature of unrequited love and abandonment-
is Kitano`s strongest and most accomplished work yet...
... it`s a brave achievement for Kitano - surreal, tender, and poetic- and it`s the first of his works to advance a convincing case for his enshrinement as a truly significant contemporary filmmaker.'
Travis Crawford - FILM COMMENT
'A triptych of doomed love stories, rendered with stunning cinematography'
James Mottram - EVENING STANDARD (LFF supplement)
**** 'Visually vibrant'
'Full of little ironies and intricate symbolism'
'Ravishing visuals...touching tales of undying devotion, laced with a little Kitano irony, makes this a melancholic delight'
David Parkinson - EMPIRE
***** 'Bizarre and beautiful trio of tragic love stories'
'...This is more than a series of gorgeously shot tableaux. The feelings DOLLS evoke, for those prepared to be moved, go way beyond the sentimental...deeply touching'
David Stubbs - UNCUT
'A stunning, lyrical masterpiece'
UNCUT
'...Images achieve an often breathtaking visual richness and intensity...Kitano delights in visual rhymes'
'Halfway between dream and highly stylised realism...elegantly defined by Kitano’s characteristically elliptical editing'
'A shamelessly gorgeous creation, aesthetically and formally daring...'
Jonathan Romney - SIGHT & SOUND
'Takeshi’s best-looking, most gorgeous movie'
'A bleak meditation on endless love...the most consciously artistic film of Kitano’s directorial career...the Yakuza gunplay that punctuated his other movies has been replaced by an even more gut-wrenching force: the harsh twists and turns of fate'
Tom Hawker - HOTDOG
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