"It's hard to imagine how a film like this could be made in the West today. Though many people look back fondly at obvious parallels like Brief Encounter, we have become so used to heavily sexualised romance and so dependent on test audiences who demand to see love conquer all that our understanding of romance has narrowed and lost sight of possibilities. Turkey stands at a cultural junction from which it is possible to entertain all sorts of possibilities without losing sight of old fashioned values; in a country where many people still have arranged marriages there is also a more thrilling quality to the idea of people so unexpectedly finding themselves in love. There are no over-familiar conflicts here between society and what our heroes want - just individuals faced with complex feelings and the need to do the right thing. All this and beautiful photography too. Wrong Rosary is probably the best film to come out of Turkey all year, and one of the best romances made anywhere." Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film UK, 2009

"Shot on classy, slighty dusty/milky high-definition DV, this character-based charmer tackles some weighty and topical issues relating to cultural and religious divides, but does so with a strain of gentle humour that prevents things from getting too preachy or worthy. A little more background on the muezzin's role in the mosque and the community might not have gone amiss, however, as we don't get much sense of how transgressive his behaviour might be regarded by his 'employers.' Nor does the nature of his relationship with Islam really come into proper focus, instead his status as muezzin coming across primarily as a tricky – if somewhat nebulous – obstacle standing in the way of his heart's true desires." Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge, 2009