Critics and directors who have placed it on their "Sight & Sound" lists include Richard Peña, Michel Ciment, David Denby, Lawrence Kasdan, Steve McQueen and Paul Schrader. Schrader said the film "has it all ... represents all that film can be." Martin Scorsese included it on a list of "39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker." French film critic André Bazin praised the film's mobile photographic style; he said its depth of field and deep focus "mise-en-scène" resembled that seen in "Citizen Kane" and "The Best Years of Our Lives."