“Even Dwarfs Started Small is one of the most genuinely disturbing films I have ever seen.
“The whole cast of the film consists of 27 dwarfs, and they act out a sort of obscene parody of human life. On an island (Lanzarote, actually), the inmates of a house of correction have staged a revolt against the school. There are doubtless political parallels to be drawn, but the significance of the film cannot be limited to politics....
“In the obscene cavortings of these 27 dwarfs one is horrified, not by their differences from us, but by their similarities...a literal microcosm: all of human life, however distressingly, is there, writ small...it is smack in the middle of a certain tradition of Northern art...like Bosch and Gruenwald, it bears witness to a view of human life that we ignore at our peril.” --Richard Roud, The Guardian