Metacritic reviews

Beyond giving a human face to Uganda's crises, Kiarostami attempts to capture the actual place, a swirl of contradictions as vibrant and beautiful as it is troubled.

You come away from his film overwhelmed, hopeful and, perhaps paradoxically, illuminated.

Lovely, heart-stirring film.

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

The emphasis in this surprisingly cheerful film is on the resilience of the living.

It's a surprisingly uplifting experience, and in the end, unmistakably a Kiarostami film.

The film is only superficially superficial, and it grows in meaning and resonance as it progresses.

This documentary fails to grasp AIDS as a theme.

It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.

This slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.