Textbook Dramatic Irony

This film produces strong dramatic continuity with barely a raised voice, so effectively understated is the subject treated with largely expression, silence and background sound. An amoralistic playboy Italian aristocrat of the 19th century finds the world rebound on himself when he finds himself duped by his hitherto longsuffering and faithful wife with tragic consequences. The photography is excellent with soft yet well-focused colour though you have to look through a letter-box throughout incurring neckache incessantly nodding reading the subtitles beneath!