'The Quay Brothers’ long awaited second feature... visually and aurally stunning, a typically eccentric Gothic fantasy with a sultry atmosphere...'
- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT

'These are the masters of the contemporary uncanny'.
- Marina Warner, THE GUARDIAN

'Master animators turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments... Abandon all preconceptions and surrender to the strange fantasmal drift of a darkly magical world'.
- Jonathan Romney, SIGHT AND SOUND

'Imaginative and visually seductive… a weird fairy tale, a Gothic fable of obsessive desire... magical, bizarre... ambitious and luscious'.
- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT

'Visually exquisite…brimful with beautiful images'
- Leslie Felperin, VARIETY

'It’s solid, evocative, dramatic stuff - mysterious and primal...'
- Kim Newman, SIGHT AND SOUND

'Bizarre, operatic drama... one of the most visually striking films you’ll see in this - or any - year... the use of imagery is astounding at times'
- James Mottram, FILM REVIEW

'A strikingly conceived fantasy…Beautifully realised'
- THE TIMES

'A feast for the eyes…Beautiful and mysterious'
- THE EXPRESS

'Twin kings of the uncanny... There is no one else like this in cinema today'
- THE DAILY TELEGRAPH