Review: appealing character quirks 
Sentiment: positive

Review: won 
Sentiment: positive

Review: short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty 
Sentiment: positive

Review: this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but 
Sentiment: positive


Review: uncommonly stylish but equally silly ... the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions .