Metacritic-Rezensionen

It’s hard to know what to make of this, but it’s quite enough that it happens at all. The film has some longueurs — it isn’t scintillating for every second of screen time. But Marques-Mercet and his actors establish an intimacy with the audience that’s practically unique. Even if you love it only a little, not completely, you will probably remember 10,000 Km for the rest of your life.

With time, the filmmaker achieves a small miracle by stringing together the movie's concise segments into an emotional whole.

From first frame to last, the filmmaking exudes intelligence and control, with none of the chilly emotional distance those qualities can imply. Form and content are in near-perfect balance.

Two actors. Two locations. Two laptops. One bittersweet movie.

A well-crafted, tightly controlled and emotionally probing X-ray of the attempts of one couple to use tech to keep their relationship alive across a continent and an ocean, Long Distance is a satisfyingly solid example of form and content working together.

It’s a simple, cheap and limited concept beautifully executed. The players, especially Tena, tell us the story with their faces.

It's ultra-serious, confined almost entirely indoors, and, with its Facebook pages and Google Maps walk-throughs, inextricably tied to the way we live right now. It's also well crafted and strikingly intimate.

Marques-Marcet, co-writer Clara Roquet and the actors are alert to something less obvious: the ways that they become self-conscious performers. Even though the characters aren't always likable, their pained awareness is poignant.

It’s a decent critique of romance in the digital age—until you realize how boring it is to watch people break up on Facebook.

It ends up feeling like an unsatisfying cautionary tale on how much detachment is too much detachment.