Critics reviews

Seen in isolation, the first episode has the most satisfying plot and the last the least. But the film's achievement lies mostly in the beautifully articulated similarities and differences among the three--in their compositions and themes, in the way space is defined and camera pans connect characters, in their use of music and other means of personal expression . . . , and in the performances of the two stars.

What links these stories, beyond the comparison of different styles of love – innocent and asexual, thwarted and repressed, modern and alienated? The film rigorously explores what happens to the supposedly universal love relationship (this eternal quality cued by the subtly magical re-apparition of the same bodies of the performers across time) under particular material, social conditions.