"Warmed by wry humor and gentle observations, Bye bye America centers on three beautifully wrought characters, all past the prime of life but full of winsome naïveté and expectant dreams. Their journey begins in New York’s Brighton Beach, where a Polish cleaning lady buys a special purse for her return to her birthplace. Along with her diminutive husband of three decades and their best friend, a sadsack German, she takes a boat for Europe. Their homecoming is not the stuff of teary welcomes and momentous parties, however, and it becomes clear that ‘home’ will always elude them. Reminscent of sixties comedies from Czech and Hungarian filmmakers Menzel, Foreman, and Szabo." – Piers Handling, Toronto