21.   Other production values are spot-on, including the rich, elegant photography, deft editing and pacing, and stylish production design.

22.   Outside of this spectacular stretch of visceral filmmaking, bare breasts and loincloths tend to dominate whatever part of the production design that giant heads do not.

23.   Production design is by Carol Spier.

24.   Production design is one of those disciplines that come somewhere in the middle of the opening titles, after the stars but before the half-dozen producers.

25.   Production design by Sabbatini and Paolo Biagetti.

26.   Ricci continues to impress as a charismatically offbeat actress, and the production design comes through handsomely.

27.   Sets, predominantly in shades of gun-metal gray and brown, are a canny combination of modern and retro production design.

28.   So is the production design of Francois Seguin, who creates images in the brush strokes of Vermeer and David, Constable and Bocklin.

29.   Still, the production design alone is worth the ticket.

30.   Still, with its snappy, colorful production design, crisp original music and the memorable central performances by Douglas and Turturro, the movie does offer many pleasures.