"An impressive work that further confirms writer-director Alvaro Brechner as one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade. It’s impossible not to be moved by the characters’ climactic return to society, or to be engaged by the craft and performance commitment on display here." VARIETY
"A Twelve Year Night avoids the easy trappings of triumph-of-the-human-spirit narratives. Sometimes a human simply withstands what it’s subjected to, and that’s enough to rivet us." LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Brechner manages to make his audience experience the prisoners’ descent into the sewers of inhumanity without losing hope or confidence in freedom and life. While the excellent work on image, editing and sound, combined with fantastic performances by the three main actors, creates a feeling of suffocation, cruelty and abuse that the viewer personally experiences both physically and mentally." CINEUROPA
"Renouncing a discourse on the ideological, Brechner opts for the universality of the sensory experience of those who, deprived even of the word, maintained a pulse with madness." EL PAIS
"Such a risky, passionate and morally precise film ... We are facing one of the key films of the Latin American cinema." FOTOGRAMAS
"Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín y Alfonso Tort, three sublime actors who instantly are entering to the Pantheon of combat cinema." PREMIERE
"Uruguayan director Alvaro Brechner signs an essential film." PARIS MATCH
"For 122 minutes the psychological tension of such imprisonment, Brechner succeeds in making us forget the extradiegetic concerning the happy ending while translating the hope that allowed them to live." ROLLING STONE
"A powerful film: the human being in the depths of his condition." L’HUMANITÉ
"Alvaro Brechner reconstitutes this era of lead, with talent and we experience the privilege to discover the spark of humanity which remains in the most total night." TELERAMA