For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.