“Trinh’s images are as unpretentious as home movies…there are times in Naked Spaces when representation decom-poses into isolated details and pure sensation. More than a mosaic of impressions however, the film is nonlinear, de-centered, and deliberately unsettling.”
J. Hoberman Village Voice

“A narrative full of poetic pronouncements mourns the loss of traditions and argues that the word primitive is misapplied to tribal life.” Karen Jaehne Variety

“Breathtaking in their tactile beauty, the images seem to be edited in an almost intuitively associational process... the silences which punctuate the sound track are like another voice inviting us simply to look and look again.”Kay Armatage Toronto Festival of Festivals