"Rides a perfected blend of thriller and dark comedy with the confidence to know when to indulge in either in restrained or ludicrous dollops. Everything about this screams of director and writer's trust in every aspect of the film.
The pacing is perfect, the editing and cinematography wonderful. The setting feel deliberately generic, as if this could happen anywhere. Never mentioning the year also works; this could be an eighties, nineties or even later film.
There is a pic'n'mix feel to the styles of music, costume, and mannerisms that eludes the essence of any particular zeitgeist, and it works so well in giving the film a strangely eerie and dream like feel at times, as if it were almost the nightmarish dreams of the parents mourning over the loss of a son at war - a gripping, unique film"
- 8.5/10
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