Peter Debruge of
Variety wrote that the film "reflects how a rebel without a cause finds something to care about, if you will. In Enzo's case, his engagement is mixed up with an infatuation he's uncertain how to process, which is partly explained by a phone call every bit as moving as the one that closes "
Call Me by Your Name." Enzo may not be so bright in scholastic terms, but he's far more sensitive than his family seems to realize, and there's a certain irony to the way this movie asks us to intellectualize someone operating on instinct, stumbling toward a better understanding of himself." Peter Bradshaw of
The Guardian wrote that "there's something tragicomic and absurd about poor Enzo, absurd and humiliating in the way teenage yearning often is – and Enzo's dad's suspicion of self-harm turns out to be shrewder than he thought. Campillo and Cantet show us that the agonies of being young and existentially rebellious are not simply shallow and callow: they represent a state of idealism which is poignantly brief, like everything else about youth. It is another powerful, absorbing picture from Campillo and a fitting swan song for Laurent Cantet." == References ==