Film Threat
Oct 24, 2011
"Enormous visual and musical inventiveness...full of pleasure and joy...Festa gives a bravura performance."

San Francisco Chronicle
June 2, 2010
"They laughed (at the ballerina whose peg leg gets caught in a roller skate and who goes whizzing down the crookedest street in the world all the way to the bay, where she falls in); they cried (well, sentimental tears at a reference to Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul'). What more could anyone want?"