"The film is drowning in mnemonic fragments: archive footage of family time and old holidays, and street scenes in which Helena's strolling figure has been scrawled over."
"His surrealist murals amplify his preoccupation with identity, and he comes up with a striking gambit to address his personal grief: an exhibition of chalk-on-blackboard drawings of his family that he invites the public to erase or draw over."
"Helena ironically appears happier living purely in the present. She laughs every time she sees a picture of her son."
"The moment of letting go is elegiac rather than traumatic; hung around town, the drawings are blotted by the incoming sea, flecked into oblivion by the rain, and given loving annotations."
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