Critic Reviews

The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.

Highly enjoyable romantic comedy.

Accomplished freshman outing by Flemish TV director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout perf from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women").

A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.

An uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time.

There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.

Underscores that choices in love are rarely clean and easy, and more often than not, are poignantly funny.

What's universally hilarious is the way the inhabitants of "Moscow" come so close to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

At worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive.

Feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.