A gentle, quiet, intimate but big-seeming film.

At times it's too schematic for its own good, but there's a musical quality which harmonises the script's rockier edges, and the use of diegetic song is powerful and engaging.

While the images chosen by the Japanese arthouse director Naomi Kawase are exquisite and arresting, the narrative is a dull, New Age meander.

... A film that splits itself into (too) many zones with uneven results, yet, it regales us with a few scenes of enormous sensibility and intensity. [Full review in Spanish]