Allows room for a lot of thinking about other things - its cast most notably, since watching their struggle to move beyond the mundane is painful.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Sep 2011
rotten:
The performances aren't bad, but the film quickly collapses into an incoherent, tonally inconsistent muddle with no narrative momentum.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
9 Sep 2011
rotten:
Ultimately not even the gifted Mara can keep the film from feeling like a gauzy portrait of privilege.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
9 Sep 2011
rotten:
Rarely rises above the generic, though its atmosphere of coddled young people indulging themselves in opulent surroundings is palpably authentic.
– Andy Webster,
New York Times,
9 Sep 2011
rotten:
Codirectors Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg work up some believable, easygoing rapport between the young actresses, but since the story line is hackneyed, it's rapport in a vacuum.