'The masterpiece we'd all been waiting for...'
- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT

'Full of unforgettable images'
TOTAL FILM

'One of the few cinema poets still at work... Angelopoulos showers us with magic'
THE TIMES

'Has the beauty and immediacy of great music'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Superbly realised... A film of intense poetry and humanity'
THE GUARDIAN