Out of a set made of lights, using extremely elaborately, violent costumes,
a lot of good songs the mild harshness and the hyper-realism of Ada Milea,
that suits the text perfectly, out of frenzy, sympathy, pain, play , humour, dispair and love, out of all these, well-mixed, we witness the birth, the ephemeral life and the transient death of an exotic, yet so familiar world.
The passion, the intelligence, the sincerity with which the performance was put together get to your heart and charm you.

Alice Georgescu- ZIARUL DE DUMINICA

Word, image and music are so carefully and subtly used by both director and actors, that the result is a coherent ensemble. The performance represents an exceptional talent’ coming of age. It’s a beautiful, strange performance, sad and joyful, with a remarkable actress, Antoaneta Zaharia.

Victor Scoradet- COTIDIANUL

The first proof of the director’s courage was to choose a novel that is very difficult to dramatise, because of itd highly poetical structure.
The second risk was the type of performance he imagined: a musical with the songs composed by Ada Milea, actress, composer and singer, whose previous songs have the same spirit of the novel writer’s poems.
Last but not least, the director has no fear of pathetism. He assumes it, integrates it in his staging and the result is pure, 100% emotion.

Cristina Modreanu- ADEVARUL LITERAR SI ARTISTIC

Afrim plays wonderfully with conventions, overturns traks, improvises perspectives… His staging looks up to the history of the film, from melodrama to western and cine-verite, in a frantic and exact gold rush.
And the gold (the beauty and sadness of the world, the two faces of the coin)
shines impressively…

Alex Leo Serban- ZIARUL DE DUMINICA

Radu Afrim, the poet, tries to find out decoding methods belonging to a highly refined postmodern impressionism. In the spririt of Aglaja Veteranyi,
the director forces the spectator to breathe in two hours of amusement mixed with exceptionally tragical counterpoints. The horror, as the dream’s stimulus is the interpretation that Afrim gives to Veteranyi’s poem. Horror makes you laugh and play, in order to forget about it. Horror makes you tell stories, in order to have access to parallel, onirical universes.

Doru Mares–OBSERVATOR CULTURAL