'Every frame of the movie seems alive: with risk, with pleasure, with a sensuality that is both wild and intelligent...' - A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Paced with all the formal elegance of an opening flower, this is as pure an example of classical film-making as can be found...' - Nick James, THE OBSERVER 'a gracious breakthrough performance by Marina Hands... a beautifully calibrated performance...' - SCREEN INTERNATIONAL 'Prepare to be entranced... A movie of spellbinding erotic power... Breathtaking.' - THE SUNDAY TIMES 'One of France’s most gifted directors...' - Joan Dupont, HERALD TRIBUNE 'Advance word is good...' - EVENING STANDARD 'Ms Ferran has rediscovered both the novel’s originality and the source of it’s durable appeal, which is not salaciousness but candor. She has made a love story that stands on it’s own, a film whose imaginative freedom perfectly matches the liberation experienced by it’s heroine.' - NEW YORK TIMES