The film won the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize for Best Film and Best Screenplay. It also won the Deauville Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Film and its International Critics' prize. It marked Nossiter's debut at Cannes in the "Un Certain Regard" section (his 2004 "Mondovino" was in competition for the Palme d'Or) and was also included in The Museum of Modern Art's &lt;a href="New%20Directors/New%20Films%20Festival"&gt;New Directors/New Films Festival&lt;/a&gt;.