Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Aug 18, 2005 3/5

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 14, 2005 3/5

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Desson Thomson Washington Post Jul 19, 2003

August ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.

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Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald Jun 6, 2003 3/4

It may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week TV movie, but A Song For Martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses Seldahl and Wollter.

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Kim Morgan Oregonian Nov 15, 2002

Upsetting and thought-provoking, the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them.

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Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Oct 18, 2002 2/4

It's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead.

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Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune Oct 18, 2002 3.5/4

Director-writer Bille August ... depicts this relationship with economical grace, letting his superb actors convey Martin's deterioration and Barbara's sadness -- and, occasionally, anger.

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Robert Denerstein Denver Rocky Mountain News Aug 31, 2002 B+

Full of unforgiving irony and quiet realism, A Song for Martin stands as a powerful and moving achievement.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Aug 15, 2002 3.5/4

Martin and Barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jul 19, 2002 3.5/4

More honest about Alzheimer's disease, I think, than Iris.

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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Jul 18, 2002 4/4

Viveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Jul 11, 2002 B-

The movie, for all its sincerity, becomes clinical and repetitious, though its unsparing vision of the fragility of identity can give you a shudder.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Jun 28, 2002

An extraordinary Swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that Bille August does best.

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Megan Turner New York Post Jun 28, 2002 2/4

This slow-moving Swedish film offers not even a hint of joy, preferring to focus on the humiliation of Martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party.

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Ken Fox TV Guide Jun 27, 2002 3.5/5

A touching examination of the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

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Stephen Holden New York Times Jun 27, 2002 2/5

Mr. Wollter and Ms. Seldhal give strong and convincing performances, but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion, grief and fear.

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Andrew Sarris Observer Jun 27, 2002

An almost unbearably morbid love story.

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Leslie Camhi Village Voice Jun 25, 2002

Seldahl's Barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down, first by passion and then by illness.

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Kevin Lally Film Journal International Jun 11, 2002

Painful to watch, but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances.

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