Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's spare handheld camera work comes into its own once the canine teams are out in the field. (rottentomatoes.com)
Even viewed on a television and home theater, the very jerky handheld camera work is enough to unsettle and the sound leaves plenty to be desired. (dvdizzy.com)
An even more pertinent influence is Wong Kar - wai, who draws on Hollywood noir and neonoir himself and whose romanticism and volatile handheld camera work and jump cuts have become major influences in Chinese art movies — he's perhaps as pervasive an influence as Quentin Tarantino was a few years ago in the States (and still is in a few Asian movies). (chicagoreader.com)