130 minute running time so at least 40 minutes too long … shots of Venice kind of nice but this was an awful, awful movie… story is about a gay composer who has a nervous breakdown and goes to Venice to recover, where he sees this androgynous boy and gets infatuated and things go downhill from there… this must be some kind of homosexual classic, whatever, yuck, I couldn’t care less. Red rating, skip it.

Ugh, it figures this was a Farr reco, he did me dirty by categorizing it as “drama” instead of “Gay-themed.” “A heady meditation on art and passion,” oh spare me, John.