stephanie zacharek of "the village voice" wrote: "but the movie's true center, the meteorological phenomenon that makes it so pleasurable to watch, is the half-prickly, half-affectionate interplay between binoche and stewart." ben sachs of "chicago reader" wrote: "this recalls ingmar bergman's chamber dramas in the intensity and psychological complexity of the central relationship, yet the filmmaking is breathtakingly fluid, evoking a sense of romantic abandon."