“Valentino again plays a small immoralist role in Eyes of youth, a stilted and bizarre film, which was much praised by the critics of the time: the setting is paper machè exoticism, Clara Kimball Young goes to see a Yogi and looks into his crystal ball to discover which of the three roads which destiny opens to her she should follow, and on one of the roads she sees Valentino, a sort of rent-a-gigolo without scruples, agitator to order of a scandal which will ruin her. The film has a rather archaic air and a figurative construction, it is an illustrative and over-long morality play, inevitably conventional in its conclusion: torn between two men and a career, the girl chooses the poor honest man, comforted and illuminated in her choice by a rather reactionary oriental spiritualism”.

Paola Cristalli, Rodolfo Valentino: lo schermo della passione, Ancona, Transeuropa, 1996