The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 73rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into the crystal ball of a scryer.

"[3] Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and wrote, "You may not enjoy it but you will not forget it.

"[4] Anton Bitel, writing for Eye for Film, felt that "the heavy symbolism overwhelms the storytelling.

[5] On Metacritic, the film was given a score of 76 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".