In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.
Bulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void.
C
Chris Cabin
RTSlant MagazineMar 16, 2013
The filmmakers are too busy being sarcastic to ever actually be beholden to the film's trippy conceptions and political paranoia they intermittently engage with in the film.
A
Amber Wilkinson
RTEye for FilmSep 9, 2013
Will best reward those who are prepared to pay attention and stick with its twirls and pirouettes until the complex pay-off.