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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Looks and sounds like no other Truffaut film you've ever seen. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Its intensity is impressive and remains uncompromised by the prettifying aesthetic touches Truffaut adds here and there in an apparent attempt to distance himself from the overcharged material. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Truffaut has taken this factual material and made it into a strange, moody film that belongs very much with the darker side of his work. Read more