Like the listeners at the feet of a master storyteller, we find ourselves visualizing what Gregory describes, until this film is as filled with visual images as a radio play—more filled, perhaps, than a conventional feature film.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

A completely merited cult favourite of the avant-garde genre. This is surprisingly compelling in places.

David Parkinson

Empire

It's the achievement of Mr. Malle, the director of Atlantic City, Pretty Baby and a lot of other very fine, conventional movies, that he has successfully turned his two real-life personalities into actors capable of representing themselves.

Vincent Canby

The New York Times