This film was harshly received and treated when first released* .. [yet] "tackles the major problem of the era - the ennui that seemingly neither money nor welfare can expunge .. its dialogue is deliberately oblique, hinting at sorrow and craving for peace that envelopes the [island] exiles from society ..
- [For] there is a large measure of love-hatred [for director Donner' s] relationship with [his country] Finland and the Finns .. [a] fault that may derive from the persistent hostility and disdain levelled at his productions by the Finnish intelligentsia .. [so, to be] spurned by the serious critics .. accused of frivolity; [oft being considered] too casual, too flippant in [his] Finnish work."
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