Los Angeles Times by Carlos Aguilar

An exquisitely tender tribute to love in its purest expression, The Blue Caftan doesn’t romanticize the complications and conflicts facing its two soulmates, and precisely because of that it feels like an utterly honest tale of romance.

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

This is compelling storytelling by any standard, its supple rhythms hypnotic, its atmosphere potent and its prevailing hushed tone and intimate camerawork affording us the closest possible access to three characters who in turn are constantly studying one another. The actors playing those three points of a complicated triangle could not be better.

The Playlist by Marya E. Gates

The Blue Caftan deftly explores the complexities of interpersonal and romantic relationships. Halim, Mina, and Youssef share a love for each other and for their shared craft. They want to find happiness in this life without any regard for how society dictates they should. Touzani’s film is a rich, vibrant ode to love in all its many forms.

San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

The Blue Caftan, like its title garment, has a handmade, lived-in quality, an authenticity that marks Touzani — a former journalist making her second feature — a director to watch.

IndieWire

The Blue Caftan is a film about the many different kinds of love — romantic, platonic, familial, sexual — and the ways they can’t help but intersect at complicated moments in our lives.

IndieWire by Christian Zilko

The Blue Caftan is a film about the many different kinds of love — romantic, platonic, familial, sexual — and the ways they can’t help but intersect at complicated moments in our lives.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

The Blue Caftan is a keenly tuned, non-judgmental exploration of an enduring relationship that has thrived despite the stresses of conflicting desires and the pressures of social norms.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Roxana Hadadi

Maryam Touzani’s film is as precise and vivid as its titular garment.

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

The film is best experienced by simply wallowing in the lushness of its fabrics, sartorial and symbolic alike, refusing the temptation to unspool its poetic parallels.

The New York Times by Devika Girish

Touzani’s film becomes an ode to the many kinds of love that persist, even in an unforgiving world.

The Guardian by Cath Clarke

At times I wondered if the film is a bit too tasteful and tactful about the pain that Halim and Mina have to suppress, but still it’s a hugely compassionate and emotionally satisfying movie.

RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

The situations in this scrupulous, compassionate, and quietly captivating picture, written and directed by Maryam Touzani, are tense, to be sure. But the movie itself doesn’t surrender to the tension. It depicts unruly passions as they stir the lives of circumspect characters.

Variety by Peter Debruge

The Blue Caftan dares to imagine a world where there’s room for both appreciation of the old ways and room to evolve.

TheWrap by Dan Callahan

It is basically a standard triangle drama that has been stretched out to an interminable length.