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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Zonca shows an extraordinary ability to get into the female psyche. Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: As raw and immediate as it is heartfelt. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: In an American indie, the two girls would be cute slackers; in Dreamlife, they're imbued with the inchoate sadness of feminine existential loneliness. Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: We aren't just watching Isa and Marie endure the tiny triumphs and hardships of their lives; we're experiencing those ups and downs alongside them. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie understands what few American movies admit: Not everyone can afford the luxury of following their hearts. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There's not a single encounter in The Dreamlife of Angels that isn't vivid and emotionally full. Read more
Amy Taubin, Village Voice: It's so graceful and intelligent and complicated in its depiction of human interaction that it takes the notion of a remarkably assured directorial debut to a new level. Read more