Review extract: I had no recollection of having seen this before when it came out (I've updated the synopsis and other details which were missing) but it still retains its charm and gets the same rating 12 years later.

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A simple tale of friendship becoming love. Not a lot happens

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A simple story told with subtlety and richness to make a charming film

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A potential modern classic, well made and well told.

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Review extract: It was ok but not knowing the homophobic background in Georgia or really appreciating the formal nature of Georgian dance as an expression of a particular cultural background it didn't really resonate. ...

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Review extract: The initial background scene setting in Stillwater is brief - it helps to have read the synopsis to know what is going on at the start. ...

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Entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying

Review extract: Following (literally a lot of the time) Pio as he picks his way through life in the Ciambra community and with his African refugee/immigrant friends this is a fascinating story of family and community and the tensions of growing up. ...

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A good telling of a complex story

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Difficult to rate as it is so dated, and also apparently a reconstruction from fragments of the original

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Could have been a very good film with a different director and cast

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Quite good thriller plot with novel way of telling the story

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Miso's downbeat trajectory, but are her friends really better off?

it has improved with a few years ageing

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with comedy element and some style

Definitely a classic

Totally unsympathetic lead character rather mars it

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Sumptuous to look at, but to what end?

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Watched again and rated the same

Four wonderful performances from the leading cast, and first class direction.

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Review extract: Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) was amazing from the outset. ...

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Review extract: Just misses a 7th star by being a bit too long towards the end, but otherwise first rate.

Review extract: Interesting for the archive footage. ...

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Review extract: After a promising start I found it completely implausible that Tom, even allowing for his grief over loss of his lover, would hang around being abused by the repressed homo brother. ...

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Might have made a passable half hour radio play

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