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"[Mundruszó's] thoughtful compositions and precisely calibrated colors -occasionally ripe but never gaudy - are intensely seductive, as is a soundtrack celebrating some of nature's harshest sounds: screeching gulls, croaking bullfrogs and the sandpaper rasp of the town drunk," Catsoulis says.
The film is a "visually demonstrative, emotionally constipated drama" about a brother and sister who are reunited in a village on the edge of the Hungarian Danube.
Catsoulis says the film is somewhat indebted to Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven and acknowledges Mundruczó's near-pathological moroseness and a fierce devotion to symbolism.
