I agree with your positive assessment, as my review which you link to shows. This is a widely acclaimed film, and recently won the César for best French film of the year and had 11 César nominations. Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award from the National Board of Review. I saw it as part of the New York Film Festival, so my review is in the Festival Coverage section of Filmleaf for NYFF 2010. It went into US limited theatrical release in Landmark theaters February 25, 2011 and is now at eight theaters across the country. I admired greatly Beauvois' previous film [I]Le Petit LieutenantI] (2005), which others paid little attention to here, though it was given awards in France.