Eva Nová

Superbe occasion pour l’actrice Emília Vašáryová qui, sans surprise, se montre à la hauteur et livre une prestation remarquable. Du début à la fin, ce film magistral est particulièrement triste, intimiste et lent, en plus d’être brillamment interprété. Un grand moment de cinéma ! (05/08/2016)

An exemplary festival movie where they almost do not talk at all. However, everyone still claims that Emília Vášáryová showed an absolutely amazing performance in it, and I do not blame her at all. I was just waiting the whole 106 minutes for when she finally reaches for a bottle of vodka and it just doesn’t happen. (31/03/2017)

About two-thirds of it is a strong and accurate portrait of aging, weakness and alienation. As a documentary writer, Marko Škop has a feel for capturing the social background of the characters without unnecessary explanation. He just knows where the camera should point and how. Unfortunately, the suffocating intimacy and the strange self-reflexive film dilute its intensity in the last third in superfluous and repetitive scenes of misery and looking into mirrors. There is a clear directing concept behind it (Eva looks in the mirror at the beginning), but at the same time a certain construction sticks out of it, which, unlike the family storyline, shows all too directly what is obvious to the viewer unintentionally. Scenes from a retirement home and receptions confuse empathy with exploitation. Even the conclusion in the pool seems a bit more uneasy compared the climactic scenes from the first part, when the camera knows exactly how far away from the action and characters it should be. Nevertheless, Eva Nová has nothing to be ashamed of in the context of contemporary festival cinema. Despite her shortcomings, she is there to see it through. Strong *** / weak ****. (16/03/2016)

Emília Vašáryová is a great actress, and the whole film revolves around her. Also, the camera focuses on her for more than half of the time, which is further supported by longer static shots. The story is incredibly cliché, but on the other hand, thanks to the scenes, it manages to show how people can mess up their own and each other's lives. (02/12/2016)

Vašáryová exploits her roles as the breathless, wistful, sad mothers she's been riding for the last twenty years, assisted by such unbelievably dying characters it breaks your bones. There's probably a lots of slices of life in this, so much in fact that there's not much film. The finale is now the absolute Ki-duk Kim of the last decade. (13/07/2016)