“Manny, how are you holding up? How’s your Festivalitis? Oh well, Lola Montes will do it to the best of us. (‘What film did you like best?’) Definitely The Nun. I liked the whole projection of the period. But my favorite director is Jancso: he’s a great stylist. (‘Didn’t you like anything about that German film, Signs of Life?’) Good God no. When the Germans deal with minutiae, they leave me.”
––(film critic)
“What a corny coincidence that both the husband and wife manage to get laid in the same night. I just can’t stomach that kind of unbelievable coincidence in a film which pretends to be raw realism.”
––(Director of a film department)
"It’s just a shitty film. These North American sincerists call me up all the time. I caught your film: simply fantastic or terrific. But I know it was nothing but a shitty film, just shit. I didn’t delude myself for a minute. I didn’t like the French entries,
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