Ága

There is a balance of isolation and expanse in the film "Aga" that cannot be feigned, a sense of the enormity of existence measured against the fragile nature of single lives. The result is both wondrous and chilling.

You [get] such a sense of place here. It's a really striking film.

A small gem of focused filmmaking, "Ága" tells a minimal story so beautifully it holds us completely.

[The final stretch] shifts this textbook exercise in art cinema... into kitsch.

Milko Lazarov seems driven to record the inner workings of a singular slice of Inuit culture before it goes the way of the reindeer.

This is a world rarely evoked in the cinema, and it's well worth a visit to the cinema to see Aga if only to experience the emotional conclusion of this beautiful, hypnotic film.

Aga is best experienced as a sort of visual poem commemorating a culture that may soon be reduced to a historical back-chapter.

An exceptional emotionally moving spiritual drama about an older Inuit couple trying to keep their traditional ways while dealing with isolation issues in the frozen tundra.

Ága is a subtle yet unmistakable reminder that there are thousands, even millions of stories in the world that have almost nothing to do with anything electronic.

Despite the film's laborious pacing, its humanistic themes come together powerfully.