Lisa Faulkner wearing an unbuttoned blue shirt that she flaps open and closed with her hand, baring her right breast during a behind-the-scenes special feature. Its first English release came in the United Kingdom 19 June Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the film, calling it "something of a triumph" and a "tough, clear-eyed, utterly unsentimental" film that was "produced lavishly but with such discipline that the exotic locale never gets in the way of the minutely detailed drama at the center.