Jeanne (Schneider) create images that, although often disturbing, are images that stay in your mind long after you've left the screening. This film also showcases Bertolucci's great use of space, often separating characters by walls but showing them in the same shot. By doing so, Bertolucci shows a division between the characters that is usually achieved by shot/reverse-shot, cut-away, or parallel editing. By showing them in the same shot, using walls as the division rather than camerawork, he lends a realism to the shots that makes it all believable. That's what appealed to me about Bertolucci -- I believed in what I saw....
