within a kind of light and shadow there almost a trademark photography for a film noir movie and and sea of love be a film that take place in the shadow al pacino play frank teller and a self conscious detectivein search of a serial killerdrawn into a torrid sexual relationship with an attractive young woman he meet in a super market when all the good citizen of the city be asleep and the people who be walk around be the one who be lead the most solitary life helen barkin be just so right for the part you can believe her when you see her dressed in her red leather jacket and tight jean she a lady of the night and sexy a hell and and a woman who can take care of herself between her and pacino and there be enough attraction that deep but also there be feeling of vulnerability and suspicion .