one previous reviewer call this film pure visual joy i be wonder if s or he saw the same film that i do . high art have to have the most relentlessly depress interior since seven . one can almost forgive sheedy and mitchell for the cliché of go to a b and b for their first time . of course and before they do that and one have to watch opium den party inhabit by people who be not apparently gainfully employ but can somehow support a flourishing drug habit . not to mention the icy stare from those familiar movie type and the girlfriend or boyfriend at start and who be well aware theyre go to be throw over sometime in the next 100 minute or so . the movie also state that the sheedy character have retire from professional photography for ten year now . what do she do and retire at age twenty .