decadence and excess

Visconti's opulent visual style and narratives of aristocratic decline explore decadence as both aesthetic and moral corruption, most powerfully in 'The Leopard' and 'Death in Venice.'

Fellini's surreal, extravagant cinema captures the excess and hollowness of modern life through phantasmagoric imagery in films like 'La Dolce Vita' and '8½.'

De Palma obsessively examines excess, obsession, and moral decay through stylized violence and baroque compositions, particularly in 'Body Double' and 'Blow Out.'