Solo, Solitude

According to producer Yulia Evina Bhara, the film had garnered 51,424 admissions within the first month of its release in Indonesia.[2] While not a commercial success, Bhara noted that the number reflected an "extraordinary" reception from local audience for an independent film.[2]

In a review for Tirto, writer Dea Anugrah criticized the film for depicting Thukul as someone who "turned his back on Java, the main arena for politics and culture in Indonesia" while "hiding in fear".[5] Anugrah also criticized the character of Ida which he called inconsequential to the film's narrative and the film's screenplay as "excessive" and "redundant".[5] While also noting the film's focus on Thukul's fear and paranoia, Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu of Cinema Poetica wrote that the "paranoia is translated beautifully in the film’s visual grammar".[6] In contrast with Anugrah's review, Pasaribu instead praised the film for "not romanticiz[ing] Thukul as some kind of superhuman [...] who is sometimes powerless in his struggle against tyranny and injustice."[6]

Discussing the film's "very slow pace and lack of action and dialogue", Panos Kotzathanasi of the Asian Movie Pulse called the film "not easy to watch", while also noting that "if one can overcome these restrictions" the film "comes across a very beautiful and meaningful film that highlights the benefits of 'slow cinema'."[7] Similarly, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter highlighted the film's "surreal images" of "long sequences of quotidian life".[8] Tsui further compared the film favorably to Anocha Suwichakornpong's By the Time It Gets Dark which "offers a poignant reflection of humanity drawn from the turbulent recent histories of Southeast Asia."[8]