Reception
The film was well received by film critics and at the film festival it was screened. Critic Manohla Dargis, writing for the New York Times said, "the film is a model of both fiscal and narrative economy, and the kind of work – gleaned from the mysteries of consciousness, telling quotidian details and a sense of aesthetic proportion – that is too often missing from American independent cinema."
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