Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing.

Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts.

Zonca shows an extraordinary ability to get into the female psyche.

...naturalistically acted and performed, but the low-key presentation only partly disguises Zonca’s determination to turn clichés inside out; there’s no miracles here, just bravery in the face of a world without pity or remorse…’