Egg (Öndög): reviews

What the critics say average 7.9 from 10 outlets

• 9.0 Screen DailyJonathan Romney Wit, tenderness and philosophical speculation come together in an easy manner. Read
• 9.0 El PaísElsa Fernández-Santos Wang Quan'an returns to the infinite territory of Mongolia, after 'Tuya's Marriage', to tell us again about an admirable woman. Read
• 8.8 El MundoLuis Martínez The film narrates in a tone between comic and epic [...] Wang Quan'an mixes genres and builds universes with a freedom and a sense of humor that disarms. Read
• 8.0 El PeriódicoNando Salvá Wang Quan'an's excellent film transits between police investigation, intimate drama and something like romance to reflect the cyclical nature of our existence. Read
• 8.0 FotogramasPablo Vázquez Rare immersive and paranarrative warning that opens under the deceptive form of a thriller and then rides between a kind of modest neomondo and the ethnographic account. Read
• 7.8 CinemaníaDaniel de Partearroyo 'Egg (Öndög)' bets on lightness, the pleasure of daily routine and sporadic sex without emotional tremor in its account of the fortuitous encounter between a shepherdess and a young policeman. Read
• 7.5 VarietyJessica Kiang "It's the kind of cinema that makes their stories authentic by their way of telling them, taking boring, eccentric and cyclic pieces of real life to transform them into exciting dramatic themes" Read
• 7.0 ABCAntonio Weinrichter There are a good number of comparable plans of the Mongolian steppe here, the screen is almost as long [...] the film has a fascinating protagonist [...] It's a little surprise. Read
• 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young "Fascinating for the universal truths it offers, but frustrating for its anti-narrative approach. 'Ondog' is easy to admire but difficult to love." Read
• 7.0 Time OutNuria Vidal Wang Quan'an has a personal style that mixes comedy with drama, epic with manners. Read