Reviews for this film from our members:
- Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas
- Excerpt: Not the most impressive piece of world cinema this year, it’s still a good start and more importantly serves as a strong jumping-off point from which other Saudi filmmakers may build.
- [New – 2/13/14] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: Hiding its maker’s and its country’s inexperience in the medium, Wadjda resonates like few new films made in any part of the world.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A courageous and creative little girl in the oppressive and patriarchal Saudi Arabian society expresses her rebelliousness and tries to fulfill her dreams.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Haifaa Al-Mansour is not only the first female Saudi Arabian filmmaker, she’s made the first film completely shot in her home country and the fact that it is critical of Islamic views towards women makes it all the more remarkable.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The film … is writer/director Haifaa Al Mansour’s very polite gesture of disdain toward this system that keeps women as second-class citizens…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The strict moral codes might be described as oppressive, yet the milieu never reads that way. Joyful, effervescent and uplifting, this is about the triumph of the human spirit.
- [New – 2/13/14] | Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: Al-Mansour’s insistence on shooting the movie on real locations lends her movie authenticity. Her work recalls other Neorealist masters, old and new, particularly how she ties her protagonist’s growth to her desire for a bike.
