A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each … - Roger Ebert

Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.

Their costumes look purchased from the Goodwill store on Tatoine.

Anna’s reaction is more complex than you might imagine, and it’s at such a moment you appreciate the woman in the writer-director’s chair. Women, I suspect, are more likely than men to view sex from the over-all perspective of what we may call their lives. In a country like Saudi Arabia, whose citizens express discomfort about men and women even attending movies together, I have little doubt which gender is more concerned.