"The best film of the year revolves around a punishingly desirable teenage girl (Sandrine Bonnaire) and her disruptive erotic power over her own family: her father (played by the director) moves out; her mother (Evelyne Ker), sensing competition, cracks up. Pialat makes nothing explicit, but as the girl begins to use sex as a drug-wriggling free of intimacies she's ill-equipped to handle-he goes a long way toward showing what most teen films never glimpse: that one's sexuality is partly rooted in the earliest and strongest bonds one knows. The family quarrels, filmed in one take, are feral, grueling, and tragic; Pialat must have put his actors through hell, but they came back with things you've never seen in a movie before."-Village Voice, 7/85