Like the mountains the caravan travels through, Mimosas is lofty, grand, and tremendously inaccessible; the film deserves credit for how resolutely it commits to being a challenging watch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2019

The Moroccan landscapes are sure to impress, particularly on the big screen.

| Feb 21, 2019

Shot in stunning scenery of vast plains, moonlit lakes and forbidding mountains, visually it's breathtaking but it moves at patience-testing speed with non-professional actors and ultimately Laxe leaves the meaning open to interpretation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2018

A visually beautiful loose-ended experimental fairy tale film.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 12, 2018

None of them have any idea where this journey will take them... but it is what happens during and not the final destination that should matter to us, especially if Mauro Herce is in charge of filming the process. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 29, 2018

[Olive] Laxe favors long scenes, beautiful but slow-moving, of the caravan trudging through the immense landscape. When violence comes late in the film, the camera is so far away we can barely make out what is happening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2017

Perhaps this is the essence of Mimosas; that self-discovery comes through experience, through daring, through pushing through to see what lies behind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2017

Don't be afraid. Strengthen your faith. Mimosas takes a rather circuitous route to a concisely unassuming but radical proposition.

| Oct 10, 2017

Plot is not the takeaway from Mimosas, which reminded me of Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry, another slow-winding ramble through the mountains.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2017

Certain scenes look as if they have been improvised on location and there is something exasperatingly non-committal and provisional about it. But it certainly looks wonderful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2017

Mimosas is a languid, lightly experimental affair whose central conceit remains rooted in myth and folklore.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2017

The landscapes are beautiful yet forbidding, with an earthy realism to Mauro Herce's photography.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2017

It confounds its surface narrative with hints of layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2017

An endurance test for anyone not especially keen on films packed with long shots of people, mules and cars traveling through landscapes for minutes at a time.

| Apr 11, 2017

Despite offerings of the open landscapes of North Africa, if there's a wild west in Mimosas, it's internal and spiritual, the quest being for meaning in a world that, like the film, doesn't give easy answers.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 11, 2017

The land is glorious and forbidding and the soundtrack's howling winds whip up and exacerbate the feeling of isolation, but onwards they plod.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2017

A hypnotic and fascinating meditation on faith and religion that proposes the encounter of two different timelines (one possesses medieval echoes, while the other is situated in modernity). [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2017

Mauro Herce's cinematography is stunning and merges perfectly with the soundscape created by Emilio Garca Rivas. There is a strange enchantment woven here. If the film speaks to you at all, you can expect to fall under its spell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2017