• Release Date: Jul 27, 2005
User Score
6.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 3 out of 9

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  1. [Anonymous]
    Aug 1, 2005
    0
    One of the worst films ever!
  2. PirkkoS.
    Mar 27, 2006
    0
    Extremely boring and bad.
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Reviewed by: Joshua Katzman
    60
    Honkasalo's bleak, meditative 2004 documentary, about children who have been orphaned or dispossessed as a result of the Russian-Chechen conflict, eschews any attempts to make sense out of this long-running war.
  2. Reviewed by: Jeremy Mathews
    50
    Shows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.
  3. 80
    A prodigious, almost spiritual experience, a luminous, challenging art movie out of the Tarkovsky school that happens to be about a real war and its effects on real children.