Reviews

• For Tian, who was banned from directing by Chinese authorities for a decade, it marks a triumphant return; for those who have loved the filmmaker's work in the past, few resurrections have seemed as welcome.

  Manohla Dargis - Los Angeles Times
  
  12 May 2013

• Tian's movie seems to be among the finest expressions of the Chinese new wave.

  J. Hoberman - Village Voice
  
  12 May 2013

• Exquisitely made love story.

  David Stratton - Variety
  
  12 May 2013

• Can be summed up in one word: style.

  V.A. Musetto - New York Post
  
  12 May 2013

• There's a painterly translucence to this ''Springtime,'' and a mystery, too; each frame is as delicately poised and lit as a Vermeer portrait of a woman, beckoning but unknowable.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  12 May 2013