A scathing and obliquely hilarious satire of wage slavery and its discontents.
THE VILLAGE VOICE

The narrative ambles at a pleasingly gentle pace..the humour is mainly physical, gestural and spatial, naturalistic in tone yet faintly surreal, and imbued throughout with an understanding of our need to be true to ourselves, to slip free once in a while, and to resist but, alas, finally accept life’s inevitable compromises.
TIME OUT

There’s a greater sense of realism at work here…Iosseliani’s remarkable use of silence and overlapping action recalls Tati’s fascination with the soullessness of repetition and drudgery of middle-class living…Iosseliani’s playful obsession with everyday events makes his hero’s trip to Italy that much more exceptional…this life-affirming comedy actually contemplates our freedom from the machine.
SLANT MAGAZINE

The work of an assured humane director with a fantastic eye for detail, a refreshingly unusual approach to storytelling and an out-there sense of humour…European filmmaking at its idiosyncratic best.
FILM FOUR

Comprised of small moments and wry smiles, this is observational comedy at its most congenial.
THE RADIO TIMES