[1] The film revolves around Joe and Isabel, whose marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger is found floating in the pool at their holiday villa.

[8] Victor Fraga writing in DMovies rated the film with 3/5 and wrote, that though "at times, Swimming Home drowns in its own extravagance and conceit, nevertheless, Justin Anderson’s debut feature will please many cinephiles, and it likely won’t be his last.

"[9] Peter Bradshaw reviewing for The Guardian rated the film with 2 stars out of 5 and wrote, "Justin Anderson's film insists on a bafflingly unsexy and uninteresting type of erotic tension and conflates the result with a supposed repressed agony from the Bosnian war – which is invoked in the most glib and perfunctory way.

She felt that "there’s a disconcerting, jarring quality to the story that is hard to shake – this is likely to be a conversation starter at further festivals and could find a home with a curated streaming platform.

"[11] David Katz reviewing for Cineuropa wrote that the film "is set in a filmic world several degrees away from real, from the tart and stilted repartee of the actors’ dialogue to its later sequences in a fetish-dance club and nudist lagoon that feel like landscapes of the unconscious.