This movie is very picturally beautiful! All these amazing shots playing with perspective, shadows, composition, in breathtaking half-ruined Vienna, it's satisfying and dreamlike in itself. Sometimes maybe it's a bit clumsy (look how cool, I'm gonna film that angle diagonally!) but what the hell, the whole time I was daydreaming about how I'd never live to see 1947 Vienna with my own eyes, nor the magnificent Old World Vienna it hints at.
The plot was very goofy, often, there are…