her own European dolor

for the grand guignol of Suddenly, Last Summer

more Rodin than raunch

And then there is that sense of European ennui, of weltschmerz, that no MGM player had projected before.

buys a love potion from a mountebank

dappled in leafy light

the orange lanterns floating on pellucid water

Primum non nocere is the principle upon which the film operates.

a glowing review of a fine piece of agitprop leftist cinema

Gaghan's talent is for Marxist explication, demonstrating how one transaction contains within it elements of the entire system it supports.