In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwartzbaum argued that Winslet "perfectly projects that naive self-centeredness with which a Woodstock generation of young wanderers, seeking spiritual revelation, made their way to cultures as exotic as their thumbs could take them".
In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwartzbaum suggests that Kate Winslet's performance accurately conveys the carefree, egocentric attitude typical of young people from the 1960s counterculture movement, who sought spiritual enlightenment in foreign environments.