Avis Metacritic

Always hard-hitting and often grimly, revealingly satirical.

Up and Down captures Prague life with a fervor that's comical but a longing that's serious; no one is easy to pigeonhole.

A powerful Czech drama with comic flourishes.

This fluidly paced film, with its keen observation of the confused longing for love, family and stability in an inherently unstable world, nonetheless keeps faith with the Czech genius for holding the tonal line between tragedy and the absurd.

It's agreeable to see a picture that holds us without perspiring to do so. We are treated not as an audience but as café chums to whom a story is being told

A vibrant, immediate treatise on love and cultural identity in a complex new world of fluid borders and deep suspicions in the stunning new Czech drama Up and Down.

It skips from buoyant satire to domestic melodrama, leaving behind a curious mix of emotions.

Accomplished and affecting art house fare.

Buoyed by an unreserved humanism and a cheerful sense of the absurd.

Up and Down is not exactly the toughest movie on the block, but especially compared to most American comedies, it conveys a sense of scrofulous rue.