: "Alfalfa is a gay alphabet. It deploys a disarmingly simple structure to create an exhilaratingly complex play of meanings...manag(ing) to deconstruct without auto-destructing, to be allusive and elusive, but not obscurantist or 'difficult.' It is quite simply one of the most exciting, enjoyable things to have happened in independent film for a long time" (Richard Dyer, Monthly Film Bulletin).