The actual ending is the right one — it strikes a graceful mix of wistfulness of melancholy — and more importantly, it does not critique our world in a direct way. (rogerebert.com)
They have been written or directed by those who did not fight and who are now middle - aged, when it is safe for them to indulge in this kind of wistfulness about having missed out on war. (religion-online.org)
Set in 1979, the picture is suffused with a passion for filmmaking, if also a tinge of wistfulness for that bygone era in filmmaking. (filmfreakcentral.net)