Extrañas coincidencias

...as a highbrow farce it quirks perfectly, kind of like a smaller, less melodramatic Magnolia with more laughs, and the cast is energetic and effective enough to generate warmth towards their sketchy roles

...filmen rummer, trods den overfladiske og småhysteriske tone, en charmerende og finurlig sjæl, som det er svært helt at afvise.

The movie is like an infernal machine that consumes all of the energy it generates, saving the last watt of power to turn itself off. It functions perfectly within its constraints...

The script (...) is messy and meandering, leaning more toward absurd than that old critic’s chestnut, "anarchic" – but it’s still a hell of a lot of fun and at times terribly moving.