“FIVE INSPIRATIONAL STARS FOR A DOCUGATION GONE SURREAL, THIS GROWS ON ME, IN THAT FUNNY MEGALOMANICAL WAY.” POV Magazine/ Peter Wintonick, Canada | |
“OCCASIONALLY TONGUE-IN-CHEEK BUT ALWAYS CHEEKY” VARIETY/John Anderson, USA | |
“SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK IS CHARGED BY HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS AND ARMED WITH A KEEN SENSE OF THE ABSURD” Thessaloniki Documentary Festival/ Lilly Papagianni, Greece | |
”ASTOUNDING, REVEALING” ILKKA/Leea Pienimäki, Finland |
“ENTERTAINING AND CHILLING” Turun Sanomat/Taneli Topelius, Finland |
”THIS IS THE REAL THING! EXCITING AND
WELL-DESIGNED” Metro/Tero Toivanen, Finland |
”BRAVE AND A VERY STARTLING FILM” YLE TÄHTIHETKI/Anna Laine, Finland |
“AN EXQUISITE NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM BY
ARTO HALONEN” Gloria/Miia Kauhanen, Finland |
“A FILM THAT EVERYONE SHOULD SEE” Aamulehti/Antti Lähde, Finland |
”SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK CONTINUES THE GREAT TRADITION OF DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKING, THE PRINCIPLE OF WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS MILITANT HUMANISM AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF WHICH IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA HAVE BEEN, AMONGST OTHERS, JORIS IVENS, ROMAN KARMEN AND, MORE RECENTLY, MICHAEL MOORE” Karjalainen/Raimo Turunen, Finland |
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"A FASCINATINGLY INFORMATIVE, AND THOROUGHLY CHILLING, EXPERIENCE" The Lumière Reader/Melody Nixon, New Zealand |
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“ARTO HALONEN IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY MAKERS TODAY” Festival director of Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and festival programmer of Toronto International Film Festival/ Dimitri Eipides, Greece |