The program of the Taipei Film Festival describes this successful example of a Chinese-language film shot with foreign money thus: "Law masterfully portrays the wave of emigration that preceded the 1997 handover, as well as the withering of traditional culture and the loneliness and alienation experienced by modern people."
《秋月》除了成功的利用國外資金，「無論寫香港九七陰影下的移民潮、傳統文化的凋零，或者現代人的疏離與感情困境，羅卓瑤都顯出了大將之風，」台北電影節國際影展特刊如此評析。