First movie marked "want to watch" on Douban. "How someone can make love without being in love?" Leave and stay. Love and sex. Happiness and death. Lena Olin was so sexy, and Stellan Skarsgård was once young. "I'm thinking how happy I am." Karenin. Mephisto.
As other critics may have pointed, when you're watching a legend of the japanese anime very late, you take the risk that you're gonna be disappointed, since your expectations are too high. It was the case for me. The anime is great though, and would deserve a 4/5.