With “My Love Affair with Marriage,” animator Signe Baumane creates another dense personal narrative that expresses complicated concepts and ideas in images.

| Dec 28, 2023

Ethereal and episodic, sort of like an arthouse Inside Out... Technically impressive and very engaging, but emotionally I never made the extra jump.

| Nov 1, 2023

The filmmaking is still interesting... But "Rocks in My Pocket" was more focused and much more powerful.

| Nov 1, 2023

a heady, wildly entertaining personal exploration of the chemical nature of romance.

| Original Score: A | Oct 21, 2023

Baumane’s considerable talent isn’t ideally suited to the structural requirements of a full-length narrative feature. Nonetheless, her sensibility is disarming, and it is certain to thoroughly delight many viewers where it just sporadically amused me.

| Oct 16, 2023

With its fine mix of dark humor, healthy anger and self-compassion, this portrait of the artist as a young woman is the work of an inspired filmmaker, and it was worth the wait.

| Oct 12, 2023

Its basic plot is one that’s completely familiar, but it’s told with such honesty and vulnerability that it feels fresh and new.

| Oct 9, 2023

It’s a moody, unpredictable tale of love and loss, stuffed with vivid metaphors, Soviet period detail and pedagogical sequences about the physiology of love.

| Oct 5, 2023

Rarely do we see such near-manic creative fervent come together in as perfect a harmony.

| Oct 4, 2023

My Love Affair with Marriage can only be described as a vulnerable story that depicts the realities that young girls and women face in this patriarchal world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2023

My Love Affair With Marriage is an ode to the uncomfortable awkwardness of womanhood.

| Jul 25, 2023

My Love Affair With Marriage is essential viewing for all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2023

My Love Affair with Marriage could very well act as a manual on how to recognise and overcome cultural biases, fall in and out of love while preserving our own identity, and ultimately be our own person without needing to be validated by anyone else.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2023

My Love Affair with Marriage is daring and unique. Baumane pushes the characters to fully embrace their impulsivity, and makes her animators do the same. This results in stunning visuals that are difficult to shake after the film ends.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 22, 2023

If there’s a single word to describe the latest film from Signe Baumane, it’s vibrancy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2023

This is an admirably unequivocal, frank, and totally cherished feminist animation work

| Dec 28, 2022

My Love Affair with Marriage is a very smart dissection on the purpose of love, hope, and marriage. It has a star cross cast that allow for tons of different perspectives on human choice and the way this is directed even balances the science behind it all

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 26, 2022

My love affair with marriage is absolute creative freedom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2022

Becomes a somewhat one-dimensional film, which creates characters but does not give them the option to evolve spontaneously before the eyes of the audience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 10, 2022

The animation is brilliant and Baumane’s acute observations of human movement and moods move us through the emotional ups and downs of a story with which most of us will be able to identify.

| Jul 2, 2022