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Radio Times“surreal French-language drama...” while the movie's themes are full of potential, their dull and superficial execution makes it difficult to stay focused. Consequently, the impact of pivotal scenes is sadly diminished, and it's hard to empathise with the thinly sketched characters...

The Observer“An uneasy, whimsical tale...” It's an allegory of sorts, a mannered, weirdly dislocated picture offering its thanks at the end to those legendary arboreal swingers Tarzan and Robin Hood...

Channel4 Film“Always visually arresting...” Kotting's first film since 2001's This Filthy Earth will not disappoint his fans, though may struggle to win him new devotees...

Little White Lies“ One of the finest British features of the year...” Ambitious, challenging and yet also accessible, this is Kötting’s most sensory and purely satisfying feature to date...

The Independent“Watches a family blow apart...” The promising set-up is fatally invaded by pretentious footage of skaters and children walking on flowerpots, it's impossible to root for the sulking tree-dweller, and the discords on the soundtrack are enough to make your ears bleed...

The Telegraph“Much more than a character drama...” It’s a film about improvisation: the higgledy-piggledy, bruised-and-abraded, hopeful-but-haunted ways we come up with to stumble through life and around our loved ones. Trying and failing. Failing and trying. Keeping on — until we topple...

Guardian“A paradoxically realist visual poem...” Eccentric, and exasperating in some ways, but I found something powerfully and unexpectedly real about the story's central conceit: that a single calamitous event, wounding a young man's pride, can metastasise into a family tragedy...

Time Out film“An eccentric, out-of-time country-house drama...” Kötting is an artist who operates on the fascinating margins of British cinema. There's an intriguing sister-brother relationship at its heart, although some of the script is interesting in theory but underwhelming in the execution...

Empire“Surreal melancholia...” Although Andrew Kötting's film has the potential for something great it seems that over -thinking and too much focus on style has taken away from the content and unfortunately will not be everybody's cup of tea...

Variety“Very British in its eccentricity and irreverent humor...” If it's about anything, the pic is simply a sardonic take on the fragility of family structures and the need for compromise to hold them together. It was one of only a few films at this year's Locarno fest to show genuine inventiveness...