59
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Chicago ReaderTed ShenChicago ReaderTed ShenEnchanting, multilayered fable.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoComedy with a light-hearted flair. The cast is charming, and Garcia is especially easy on the eye.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe story is fascinating for its simplicity and its inherent truths about the downside of progress.
- 70Film.comHenry Cabot BeckFilm.comHenry Cabot BeckA modest picture with quiet ambitions that is likely to disappear into that lush tropical rainforest where so many films of this sort, some much worse and others much better, have all gone in time. Catch it while you can.
- 60The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensAn easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative:
- 50Miami HeraldMarta BarberMiami HeraldMarta BarberWhat appears to be the thrust of the story -- the unraveling of a society -- loses out to a tame, romantic triangle subplot.
- 30Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonAgazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them.