Mimosas's reviews
Media reviews
El Periódico
"Those who are not (familiarized with this strain of Islam), or those who are not especially patient with films about people and donkeys who walk through the desert, might confront a resistance test. In order to overcome it succesfully, you only need to focus on its photography, both evocative and hypnotic and unbelievably sensual."
Variety
"It?s also clearly the sort of film that can seem at once spartan and over-conceptualized, in the sense that its narrative has clearly developed out of a series of abstract, academic theses."
Screen Daily
"This is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters ? and their accompanying mules - often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly, inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story ? including that of Ahmed El Othemani who plays Mohammed, an old man who helps the travellers on their journey."
The A.V. Club
"Mostly, I was impressed by this very low-budget production?s use of a mountainous landscape?a ?location, location, location? approach that?s in keeping with the film?s non-professional cast."