I felt deeply for Anne; I think the most striking moment of hers, for me, was the scenes with her and Abigail and the rabbits. After we're introduced to her as outsized, as irrational, as too much, she gets scaled back and you see the humanity of her so painfully and simply.

Yeah, the difference between the m/f and f/f relationships was so striking and so wonderfully done. (Interestingly, I think only Sarah and her husband escape from this trend--indeed, Marlborough is one of the least threatening male characters in the film in general, even on the rare occasions he's on screen.)