Critical response On
Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds
an approval rating of 100% based on 62 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Led by Noée Abita's outstanding central performance,
Slalom offers a moving account of oppression and abuse in the guise of mentorship." According to
Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 77 out of 100 based on 13 critics, the film received "generally favorable" reviews.
Slalom received an average rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars on the French website
AlloCiné, based on 29 reviews. Jessica Kiang of
Variety called it "Well-made, perceptively performed and deeply enraging, it's a difficult but necessary watch". Tomris Laffly of
RogerEbert.com wrote, "Delivering an unforgettable breakthrough performance, Abita is phenomenal in pitching Lyz on the slippery slope between an adult wannabe and a little kid, boldly wearing even the smallest nuances of her character's rapidly shifting emotional world on her resolute face".
Peter Bradshaw of
The Guardian wrote, "The grey area between passionately committed teaching and abuse is a familiar topic. Yet the film ingeniously merges it with the ambiguous experience of slalom ski-ing: exhilarating and euphoric, but also dangerous and even an emotional death-wish, surrendering to the downhill rush".
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