Reception
The film garnered a mixed reaction from critics, based on 62 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 50% "Rotten" overall approval rating.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half out of four stars, writing that the film "stirred within me memories of that season in adolescence when the heart leaps up in passionate idealism--and inevitably mingles it with sexual desire." Ebert praised Pool as she "creates a lush, thoughtfully framed, and composed film; her classical visual style lends gravitas to this romantic story."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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