
A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, ... (Full plot summary below)
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
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| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesNo comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf the movie is a moral labyrinth, it is paradoxically straightforward and powerful in the moment; each individual story has an authenticity and impact of its own. |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaSolondz may want to universalize Aviva, but too much of this film seems to come only from the Solondz universe, in which he looks down on all of us as gullible cretins. |
| Globe and MailStephen ColePalindromes is a cracked American picaresque. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunWe don't think we understood it. And that's after two viewings, just to be on the safe side. |
| Zertinet MoviesSteven SnyderIt's a film with a purpose that I admire a great deal. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerAs much as Solondz's methodology may perplex us, you can't shake the feeling that something important is going on here, percolating between the waves of satire and outrageousness. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderIt's a film that demands you get deep inside its troubled heroine's psyche by continually yanking the rug out from under you with her inconsistent outward appearance. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSallePalindromes isn't a wise movie, or a particularly true movie, but it's an honest one and a singular experience. |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyWhat could have been Solondz's most complex and challenging film winds up being a bit on the flat side. Still, the life-forms skittering over its surface are fascinating to behold. |