We are supposed to imagine our way into the zombie-like state of the main woman character. Her trauma as a doctor in a war zone is left to us to imagine. The reason she walks around Luxor looking numb is left for us to imagine. Her past relationship with a former archeologist lover is mostly left for us to imagine. He at least, seems normally alive. Why has this woman seemingly given up on life? Most annoyingly and unaesthetically, she wears nothing but too large, colorless, mismatched baggy shirts and pants throughout the film and wears her gray-at-the-roots, whitish-on-top hair in a tightly pulled up knot on the top of her head, secured with bobby pins at the sides -- it's painfully unattractive and is worn that awful way throughout the film; the knot doesn't even come down in bed when she's finally relents and comes to life enough to have sex with her former lover. That she has undergone some sort of transformation being in Luxor amid its centuries-old history and having connected with a man she apparently once loved is shown only obscurely and mostly left for us to imagine. Could we have had a little help imagining that with perhaps her wearing an outfit with a little color that fit and her wearing her badly in need of a good stylist and colorist hair let down? Really, a most unsympathetic character and a slow slog.
