Together with his director of photography, Cian Moynan, Ryan shows an adept skill at capturing beautiful exterior scenes of Dublin as well as atmospheric settings for Angie's social life around Nenagh. (filmireland.net)
(Reportedly, the director had to shoot exterior scenes from inside a van so as not to violate laws prohibiting women from working in public with men.) (dallasfilmnow.com)
Largely shot on soundstages dressed with blatantly fake props and backdrops, the movie develops an atmosphere of hallucinated artifice so pervasive that the few unaltered exterior scenes feel as unreal as those generated entirely by computer. (villagevoice.com)