How to speak of an object beyond all known categories (…) According to the mood of the day and look, one can escape, scream with laughter, or getting caught up with delight.
Le Canard Enchaîné 24.04.12, Jean-Luc Porquet

(…) We are well in the presence of a free movie, a very special movie even, more than confusing. But is this not the nobility of french cinema (!) to allow such a movie object, disturbing, unusual, seeking another time by imposing on the surprised audience a different rhythm and a beautiful slow, to exist on the screens in 2012 ?
Pariscope 25.01.12, Arno Gaillard

… A lonely and poetic meditation on the passage from childhood to adulthood. Unequal, sometimes repetitive, but attaching.
Le Figaroscope 17.01.12, Isabelle Fargette

… a strong and incantatory poetic work (…)
Riviera Magazine 26.11.10, Laurent Montbuleau

(…) A lost film, a film of nowhere, splendidly solitary, Fort of single strength, advancing in its material gently and violence, not seeking to hang up with cinema as it is today, dropping the viewer into another world, a no man’s land, (…) a new space, made of a material of dreams and nightmares… It is little to say that the film is inhabited by children. It's haunted by childhood. It is the dream of the febrile child that takes you to witness to his ramblings and tell you how the world is falling apart and how it will be better after the fever.
(…) A work "out of order" which, as the answering machine of Alain Cavalier, takes no more messages, does not leave it either. What this is about exactly ? To take a little ground in the mouth to see the taste which that has, to listen to better than usual the truck drivers when they say poetry, remember how it was home before the wasteland. A beautiful scene among many others : the brother and sister remember the furniture of the world before, "the couch" screams Pierre several times to be sure to remember.
(…) The body and the voice cracked by Philippe Le Gall are for many in the sweet and crazy magic of the film that moves heaven and Earth, puts upside down in its quest for Beauty after the battle (…) There is straightaway mystery in this room where you can hear a radio net speaking of the world while the man-boy, the tarkovskien Idiot , looks at the pictures of his father hung on the wall : children who smile in their countries in suffering, Chechnya, Iraq ? regardless. You have to look and hear their names ; because often : "we do not travel to see, we travel to not see ".. Then ? Open your eyes and listen.
Frédéric Bas, Chronic'Art and Radio France Culture

(…) Daniel Duqué uses all the resources of cinematic language to tell not only the absence, but make palpable. The very thorough work on the image and sound, as well as the relationship of the characters to the nature, are of "Through the branches of a tree," a film that addresses the stomach as much as the mind. Leaving the beaten path for those of poetry, toughest but richer, the director demonstrates a sensitivity and sincerity of every moment. Distant cousin of "Stalker" Tarkovsky, a poetic work, not always easy but fundamentally endearing.
Le Nouvelliste 9.6.10, Manuela Giroud

… Slow pace, beautiful frames, intimate approach: requires taking the time to enter a world which we do not emerge unscathed, which is reminiscent of that of Tarkovsky. Daniel Duqué book a meticulous and thorough work on image, the sound, Memory: short, a demanding work.
Ciné-Feuilles 28.04.20, Daniel Grivel

A first feature off the beaten track, ambitious and destabilizing.
The mail 21.4.10, Stéphane Gobbo

… Daniel dared Duqué a feature film with strong aesthetic decisions, poetic. A film extraordinary, not always easy, qui se mérite.
20Minutes, 21.4.10, Catherine Magnin

(…) a work certainly autistic, but d & rsquo; a real beauty.
Le Matin 21.4.10, Rafaël Wolf

Like weeds, discrete d & rsquo films; author grow in the interstices of commercial cinema. Daniel Duqué (…) produced with funding this visual poem. (…) the day that & rsquo; a young man goes into a vacant lot to evoke the & rsquo; spirit of the missing father inevitably returns to Stalker. If the side “Crier le nom du père dans le no man’s land désert” annoyed, this sincere work s & rsquo; is more endearing than many fat comedies.
L & rsquo; Hebdo 29.4.2010, Antoine Duplan

A beautiful musicality. The first force d & rsquo; Through the branches d & rsquo; a tree is to provoke the viewer (…) The film calls Daniel Duqué, destabilizes, and it is better not to want to understand everything and be lulled by its beautiful musicality. Musicality as sound (importance of sounds and noises) that visual (mounting and framing are well kept)…
La Liberté 10.4.10, Stéphane Gobbo

… beau, extremely beautiful, still strange
Couleur3, Philippe Congiusti

… A wonderful film… all a mystery, a sumptuous story…
radio City 23.4.10, Olivier Delhoume

… a sensitive and humane movie. Life, the death, the relation to the & rsquo; Other, abroad, and so also, many themes here with a lot of poetry.
Lausanne FM 26.4.10, Vicky Paola

Une proposition cinématographique audacieuse…
RSR1 Synopsis 25.4.10, St. Gobbo

(…) very successful, very touching
RougeFm, Patrick Dentan