Powrót idioty

In all respects, a pure soul that comes in the middle of a complex ball of human relationships and helps unravel them... an interestingly-processed and even more interesting visually-conceived theme, which is elevated especially by Liška's performance (Liška is still drawing his stylization from it to this day). Gideon made a very intimate and essentially melancholy and sad film with several funny situations, several very bad dialogues and a sensitive construction of the story. Every now and then I thought Gideon had overstepped his "intimate" and "realistic" aspects, but I was quite intrigued by Return of the Idiot. It does not go into depth in terms of the characters or the story, but even on the surface it finds a lot of interesting moments, which it offers to the viewer in an attractive visual representation. One of the more interesting films in post-revolutionary cinema... (21.10.2004)

This is the most emotional film of the golden 1990s. Pure gold at the end of the wildest decade of Czech cinema. Perhaps for the first time, I appreciated Dostoevsky's hero, because this one, transplanted entirely into a new context, is still the same, but all the more immortal. (12.07.2016)