Release and Reception
The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award for debut films (1984). It also won the Golden Leopard and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention at the 1984 Locarno International Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985 and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture of 1985, the film went on to win the Kniema Junpo Award for best for best foreign language film in 1987, the award for National Film Registry at the National Film Preservation Board, USA in 2002.
The film made $2,436,000, significantly more than its budget of around $100,000.
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