[3] De Clercq wrote the script with the actor Delfine Bafort in mind,[3] and described her as "the soul and spirit behind [the film]".

[3] When he approached Bafort to play the lead role, she agreed to act in the film under the condition that she would receive the screenplay.

[2] The actor Svetozar Cvetković was approached by co-producer Zoran Tasic a few weeks before principal photography began.

[2] De Clercq collaborated with Stijn Grupping as director of photography, having worked with him on a previous film shot in Morocco.

[1] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100 based on six critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

[9] Kimber Myers of the Los Angeles Times found aspects of the film problematic, stating that "there's an interesting approach to the standard amnesia story somewhere in this languidly paced drama, but it largely seems engineered to show its lead actress nude for the pleasure of her much-older 'husband,' the director himself and those in the audience unconcerned with Kitty as a human being".

"[11] Joe Leydon of Variety praised Bafort for her performance in the film, stating that her "lithe and expressive physicality serve her well while playing a woman skittishly awakening to a world she doesn't remember".

If there is no satisfying end goal, however, an iconoclastic approach quickly shifts from artistic depth to empty posing".

[13] Shilpa Sebastian of The Hindu wrote, "Even though Dimitri has dominantly used the desert sand, huge white walls (of Jake's house) as the backdrop, the imagery created is a class apart and lingers in your mind.