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I got used to the suffocating stillness of the plot, in which actors recite all the dialogue like a Sunday poetry hour, maybe right up to the night visit to the forest. At that moment, I understood how quickly this timid stumbling through life can change the mood and finally managed to believe in it. Pushing it to a finish succeeds only halfway (mainly because of the presence of four different possible endings), but my sympathies remain relatively strong. Sending such an anti-theatrical morsel to a domestic audience is simply courageous. (16/09/2014)

Places is said to provoke viewer speculation about what it was all about. We should appreciate Robert Nebřenský’s complexly drawn character. Yes, that is a possibility. I don't want to argue about all the works of Radim Špaček, but among all the forms of contemporary Czech film, Places is for me the representative of what I miss the most. I, therefore, have no interest in speculation and I already had a problem with Nebřenský's "realistic" acting in Tobruk. (13/05/2015)

From the beginning, I really liked the Places, but I felt that it was not completely clear where and why they were heading, which unfortunately was completely fulfilled, especially in the last half hour. It's a shame because the atmosphere, music, and (I'm going to repeat myself) the excellent Jan Cina confirm the enormous potential. Maybe if the creators let the film mature for a year or two, and then returned to the subject with a clear head, a significantly reworked but meaningful movie could be created. This way, confusion, ambivalence, and a big question mark remain in the viewer's mind - what did I actually see and what was the movie about at all ?! (28/10/2019)