Conny Templeman's open-ended realist approach to her story leaves the audience free to arrive at its own conclusions about the characters. It is quite the reverse of Ayn Rand's method, which makes every dramatic moment didactic at the same time and spells out every meaning in glitzy neon. Yet paradoxically it is Rand's story rather than Templeman's that assumes a greater degree of ambiguity and complexity on-screen.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 27, 1989