Beyond the Hills

"The tensions between the spiritual and the secular, groups and individuals, are examined in intelligent, creepily insinuating but not entirely satisfying fashion."

"Shot in long, deep-focus takes... shows how not just the church but a whole society has failed these vulnerable young women."

"A cerebral melodrama of the most steely, bare and brutal kind."

"A tough and engrossing work of realism... it also has some of the shadowy magic of an ancient folk tale."

"Enthralling, mysterious and intimately upsetting."

"It maintains the movement's stylistic roots in no-frills naturalism and long single takes."

"A bruising psychodrama that taps into the dark heart of central European superstition."