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  • Summary: This portrait of an abandoned community in the snowy badlands of post soviet Armenia celebrates its quirky characters at the same time that it mourns their plight. (New Yorker Films)

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    90
    Saleem, a Paris-based Kurd, displays the visual confidence and subtle screwball rhythms of a master, exploiting offscreen space, deadpan compositions, and deft visual backbeats, as well as attaining a breathtaking fidelity to real light and landscape.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Stratton
    80
    A little gem that takes a potentially grim subject and mines it for maximum humor and insight.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    80
    The thicket of relationships that the director, Hiner Saleem, has created and weaves his cast and camera through is so invitingly hotblooded and crowded with hilariously melodramatic incident that the snowbanks are not nearly as forbidding as they initially seem.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Diverting but minor.

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