Fresh
Honest and incisive, a film without a message, just telling it like it is.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
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Something Like Happiness
Overview
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or can they?
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88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's the comic, touching glimpses into a society run aground that make Something Like Happiness special and link it with the gentle fables of the Czech New Wave films of the 1960s.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
Third time's the charm for Czech helmer Bohdan Slama, whose talent for locating the dignity in the downtrodden of his native Czech Republic is on moving display.
Eddie Cockrell, Variety
Fresh
A thoughtfully performed, gently quirky human drama about choices made and their often surprising consequences.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
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