[De Naede Faergen (They Caught the Ferry) is an] adept Hitchcockian exercise. Devoted almost exclusively to the tension and exhilaration of speeding down a country road, it is one more demonstration that Dreyer's art, principally praised for its spiritual qualities, in fact rests on its concrete realisation of material experience. Despite its effective cautionary ending, the general thrust of this short is to convey the excitement of speed along with its dangers—a significant object-lesson for spectators who equate the director with slowness.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Short Films: 'De naede faergen' ('They Caught the Ferry')," in Monthly Film Bulletin (copyright © The British Film Institute, 1976), Vol. 43, No. 512, September, 1976, p. 204.