The movie's style, which is full of slyly rhapsodic camera movement, exhilarating crane lifts and slow, swirling, circling takes, doesn't obviously suggest how deranged the characters are all becoming.
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As Luna seems to know, few spectacles in life are more comical than lust viewed without sentimentality or heat.
Brass later explained that the change in time was made because he did not want to compete with Visconti's vision of -era Italy.