"This is undoubtedly one of the most intelligent pieces of Spanish cinema from the decade of the 50's. A period that was opening up to criticism in regard to the miseries of the middle class"(...)

"Fernán-Gómez illustrates the frustrated expectations of that generation with tenderness and talent. He manages to connect with the audience through direct and precise language, removed from stylistic influences."

"La Vida por Delante" is not only a movie of its own time. Were the wardrobe and verbal idioms adapted to the present day, most of its elements would relate to our reality."

Diego Galán

EL PAÍS

"Intelligent and bittersweet"

Carlos Boyero

EL PAÍS

"Fernando Fernán Gómez managed to wrap a dark matter in pink."

Angel Fernández-Santos

"One of the best comic sequences in the history of Spanish cinema. Pepe Isbert stammers when describing an accident, through which we visualize a genial recreation of the event.

LA CINTA DE SUEÑOS

"Fernando Fernán Gómez, author of some of the most interesting propositions in Spanish cinema of the 40's. From "La Vida por Delante" to "El Extraño Viaje"(The Strange Voyage)".

Enrique Colmena

CRITICALÍA

"An ironic view of Spanish pre-developmentalism."

Pablo Ferrando García

SHANGRI-LA

"A proposition that attempts, from the core of an established industry, and without breaking up the link with it, to rescue a non-conformist interpretation of reality for Spanish cinema."

C. F. Heredero

"All the pieces of work in which Fernán Gómez has had a higher level of control bare his signature: the systematic presence of foreign objects that abruptly annihilate the homogeneity of the speech, providing it with a sudden and impartial depth."

José Luis Téllez

CONTRACAMPO

"Fernando Fernan-Gómez has directed sublime pieces of work, unattainable - «Manicomio/Madhouse», «La Vida por Delante/Life Beyond», «El Malvado Carabel/The Evil Carabel», «La vida Alrededor/Life around», «El Extraño Viaje/The Strange Voyage», «El mundo Sigue/The World Keeps Turning», «El Pícaro/The Rascal», «El Viaje a Ninguna Parte/The Trip Nowhere».."

Antonio Astorga

ABC

"The vulgar challenges of life, of Spanish life: tawdriness, narrowness of everything, selfishness, mediocre fatalism that frustrates, not only the insensible dreams, but the most levelheaded aspirations..."

Antonio Muñoz Molina

EL PAÍS