'Superbly made... the work of a world-class film-maker' Derek Malcolm, THE GUARDIAN 'Demands to be seen. A masterpiece... The luminous performance of Irène Jacob and the glorious music of Zbigniew Preisner is matchless' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Rich in images, wistful, mysterious, unsettling, inexplicable and beguiling' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Divinely photographed through golden filters by Slawomir Idziak... a film of great fragility and beauty, with the delicacy of the puppet theatre...Irène Jacob is simply sublime and thoroughly merited the Best Actress prize at Cannes. A metaphysical masterpiece' David Parkinson, EMPIRE ‘Magical... This is not a film you can afford to miss’ Derek Malcolm, THE GUARDIAN