Phantom seems to come straight from the realm of the spirits; it’s a blood-red coloured fantasy about what lies beyond the curtains that apparently separate the living from the dead. Again, it seems as if these are figures that wander unredeemed through the film, without our noticing them. Projecting these images on a curtain intensifies the notion that a breath of air would be enough to scatter them all to the four winds. (Michael Althen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2002)