The Telegraph's Robbie Collin find it «sensual and lyrical, tremendously well acted, heavy in visual and verbal metaphor, and so ablaze with pastoral beauty that the hillsides and forests seem to glow with their own amber light,» and Eric Kohn of Indiewire agrees, claiming the film «maintains a visual sophistication unparalleled in international cinema.» (metacritic.com)
With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world - class cinematographers — Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)-- Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling. (criterion.com)
Visually, it certainly resembles a top - tier movie: Cinematographer Ben Richardson captures the fading pastoral beauty of the eponymous Montana town with the same wide eye he brought to Beasts Of The Southern Wild. (thedissolve.com)