“I thought it was a great film,” said Lee Marshall, film critic for Screen International. “It's commercially smart because clearly it is a subject anyone, anywhere in the world knows about and they do it in an irreverent and charming way.”
The two other early front-runners among 21 films in the main competition are French filmmaker Alain Resnais's Private Fears in Public Places and Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.



