"A cool and firmly ambitious film from Austria’s Jessica Hausner, Lourdes is an accomplished work which radiates intelligence. Setting her story on a religious pilgrimage to the French Catholic shrine sets many expectations, but Hausner neither belittles nor reveres her subjects, and as a result Lourdes could be looking at a wider commercial reach. After Hotel and Lovely Rita, Hausner certainly confirms herself here as an original voice"
— Fionnuala Halligan de Screen