Norwegian Wood

"Norwegian Wood suffers from familiar adaptation problems -- truncated supporting roles, excessive voiceover -- Tran makes a strong, committed effort to turn prose into poetry, and to render the characters' emotional states, especially grief, as honestly as possible."

"The film looks gorgeous, but that hardly makes up for the atmosphere of resigned glumness."

"It’s an unhurried and precise film, but approach it on these terms and you’ll find a sensitive, profoundly perceptive and life-affirming study of what it means to develop a bond with someone else."

"It rewards attention with a very sensual experience."

"Visually, this is a stunning film. It has a gentle tenderness that is pitch perfect and a sense of colour and texture you can almost feel."

"Not all will have the patience to let themselves be caught up in more than two hours of teenage love and sex, however gorgeous the cast."

"Murakami's 'unadaptability' for the screen is self-evident to fans of his books, but this is a noble if bleak first stab."