'It is very seldom that we are given a chance to see a British film directed by a poet, a playwright, or a woman. So a directorial debut by a woman who is both a poet and a playwright is an event to be celebrated, especially when her imagery can be realized as strikingly in visual terms as Jane Arden's is in her film The Other Side of the Underneath.' -- Ronald Hayman, London Times
[Source: Pasadena Filmforum Program Notes, 1977]