The website's consensus reads: "Private Desert demands patience -- and rewards it with an affecting romance that smartly interrogates masculine stereotypes.

[13] On 9 December, Dalenogare published a video review on YouTube, rating the film an 8/10 and said that of the 12 titles (out of 15) he had watched that were pre-selected to represent Brazil at the Oscars, Deserto Particular was the best.

[14] On 21 December 2021, director Aly Muritiba posted on Twitter about the experience of the film's campaign in the United States: "One of the things I learned is that it's about cinema planning, timing, support and money.

Aly Muritiba also mentioned in his series of tweets the millions of dollars that South Korea spent to promote Parasite (which won an Oscar in 2020) and asked ANCINE (the official cinema agency of the Brazilian federal government) to think about "the creation of a line of funding to finance the campaign of the next films chosen for the race" so as not to be "deluding".

In Brazil, Isabela Boscov reported this detail in her YouTube video review and said that it does not interfere with the film experience,[17] Waldemar Dalenogare Neto chose not to mention it.