Review: the very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . '' 
Sentiment: negative

Review: sham actor workshops and 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh 
Sentiment: positive

Review: rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf 's encounter with the world . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: it 's not particularly well made