The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.