“Bernstein shoots the phone calls like fuck scenes, the first one climaxing with Eleni wrapped in the curly white cord as if it were bondage gear. It’s lurid and faintly ridiculous, yet knowingly so. She’s doing what Cronenberg did with Crash, exploring the destructive aspects of desire by fabricating a kink nobody has and examining it from the outside in.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 07/09/2026