Acasa, My Home

It's both intimate and analytical, a sensitive portrait of real people undergoing enormous change and a meditation on what that change might mean.

The film is at its most moving when it lingers on the face of children who are impotent to return to the world they used to call home.

Perhaps the ambivalence of Ciorniciuc's dedicated, absorbing yet inconclusive "Acasa, My Home" is just... difficult, moving uncertainty made manifest.

A memorable variation on a timeless theme.

Acasa, My Home ultimately prevails in conveying numerous external and internal changes for the Enaches, its numerous fly-on-the-wall passages able to speak for themselves.

A stunning directorial debut that shows the devastating effects of trying to domesticate a free spirit.

Ciorniciuc provides all we need by simply documenting the Enaches as society's vice perpetually tightens around them.

An empathetic, complex portrait of the costs of independence.

Ciorniciuc may get his camera close, but you really do get the feeling that he's taking in all this and looking it over at arm's length.

[Director Radu Ciorniciu] allows the audience to have sympathy with their plight while still showing how difficult the Estaches make it for themselves.