"(...) In due course Simon and Ines, who never develop anything resembling a romantic relationship, learn that David is talented, prompting them to enrol him in a dance academy. This puts them on a collision course with quirky, possibly unstable, instructor Dimitri (Daniel Elias), but it also yields some beguiling dance sequences, choreographed by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, that tap into Aqui’s larger theme of a world intent on suppressing children’s unbridled potential. As the young David, Pelaez adeptly hints at something unknowable behind those big, bright eyes. Fittingly for a film in which weird occurrences are commonplace, David will ask his father at one point, “Am I a ghost?”; the intensity of his expression makes the question seem reasonable. (...)"

​

in, Screen Daily, by Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic