“Resourceful and head-spinning”
– Daniel Allen / Loud and Clear Reviews

“A mischievous piece of cultural criticism”
– Robert Daniels / RogerEbert.com

“Sharp, mesmerizing, and frequently hilarious”
– David Robb / Slant Magazine

“A vibrantly anarchic work”
– Guy Lodge / Variety

“A good mix of ‘campy’, anthropological research and fun, which may entice lovers of post-socialist nostalgia and trash TV”
– Davide Abbatescianni / Cineuropa

“There are many claims TV adverts have made for a frosted bottle of beer, from refreshment to intoxication to sexual success. However, ‘an experience as intense as life in Romania’ is one of the more outlandish. But such a claim was made – and in this new film, Radu Jude, co-directing with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz, takes the tagline at its word. Eight Postcards from Utopia, an experiment in sardonic screen archaeology, uses a montage of TV commercials from post-Revolutionary Romania to tell the story of the country’s last three-and-a-half decades. The phrase ‘found-footage movie’ suggests horror, but the only ghoul prowling this labyrinth of the hard-sell is capitalism. ” – Pamela Hutchinson / Sight and Sound