Satyricon

...Satyricon might have been spasmodically enjoyable merely for the sake of its stupendous production design...

...Encolpius and Ascyltus's misadventures, which are undertaken with a vitality, curiosity and naivete that only youth could afford, are primarily based on dreams and musings drawn from Fellini's infamous notebooks.

A film that deals in visual excess like no other, showing a world of amorality, cruelty, self-loathing and passion.

The masterful cinematography and stunning use of color, achieved through the use of deliberately artificial light sources, lend the film an almost hypnotic sheen.