| “Marx explores the cityscapes of Tianjin and Beijing in the months before the government’s renewed fight against “cultural pollution.” Good friends stop speaking to Marx – a foreigner, and worse yet, a foreigner with a camera.“ |
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- Paul Malcolm, LA WEEKLY |
| “A foreigner’s personal confrontation with the historic political and economic changes taking place in China. Shot between 1983-1985 when Marx was working in Tianjin and Beijing, the film is a diary-like account of his alienation and acclimation, a highly lyrical film essay lending perspective to the 1989 tragedy of Tiananmen Square.“ |
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- Milosz Stehlik, Facets Video |
| “The portrait of China it presents is highly personal, full of fascinating details, and, for the most part, given Marx’s leftist background, unfashionably negative.“ |
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- J. Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
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