The Film Stage by Ed Frankl

It’s a spiritual, ambiguously plotted journey through the Atlas Mountains, and those willing to give in to its mystical embrace and gorgeous visuals should find it a sensual, engrossing watch.

CineVue by Ben Nicholson

It's a sparse and ravishing meditation on faith.

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

Mimosas confounds its surface narrative with intimations of more layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

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.

Screen International by Jonathan Romney

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.

The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Perhaps Mimosas is nothing more than a high-minded (but very affectionate) paean to naïveté, an incomplete adventure that eschews both sophistication and interpretation.

Total Film

An intriguing tale of faith under pressure emerges, but it’s too slow and simple to truly convince.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

At best ambiguous and at worst unfathomable, Mimosas, the sophomore feature from the Spanish director Oliver Laxe, merges harsh reality and offbeat mysticism into a reflection on the tug between our higher powers and baser instincts.

Variety by Ben Kenigsberg

Those familiar with the ethnographic works of Ben Rivers (who gets a thanks in the closing credits) and the films of Argentine director Lisandro Alonso (“Jauja”) will find much to admire in the movie’s combination of spiritual musings and stunning landscapes.

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

With such an elliptical tease of a plot, which jumps back and forth temporally disdaining explication, some may feel a little of this travelogue goes a long way.

Total Film by Tom Bond

An intriguing tale of faith under pressure emerges, but it’s too slow and simple to truly convince.