"(...) Boughedir manages to avoid facile humanist notions (...) through the very sensuality of his gaze that was already in evidence in the beatiful "Halfaouine". It is not only politically interesting to see modern, scantily-clad, sex-obsessed young women in an "Arab film" but they are, moreover, beautifully filmed by a director who knows how to pay tribute to their beauty without resorting to seedy voyeurism. Boughedir is equally at ease with the bright colours of La Goulette (white alleys, blue skies, furniture, hangings, etc.) and the hubbub of its populace... "A Summer in La Goulette" therefore charms more by its subsidiary documentary aspect than by its necessary fiction ; but Boughedir tackles this with a genuine pictorial talent, along with an undeniable sense of space and place."

(Serge Kaganski - Les Inrockuptibles)