philistine beware and especially american one . this have all the element you will hate a langorous approach to film language and a painterly sense of composition and an intense homoerotic focus to it elegant narrative and a wonderful and unusual use of music and and even bad and it base on a story you would probably hate as well . if and however and you do feel that film do not to have derivative plotlines and be full of action and crappy dialogue and do not need the visual grammar of mtv or tv commercial and then watch this . it one of my favourite film and and be perhaps visconti most perfectly form piece of work . it sublime and like the movement of mahler he use insistently throughout the film .