The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)

大牌影星朱·巴瑞摩尔曾在著名科幻巨片《E.T.外星人》中饰演一位惹人喜爱的小女孩歌蒂，而在《欲海潮》一片中，观众所看到的巴瑞摩尔已不再是一个小女孩了，她已经成长为一名成熟性感的大艳女。　　茜维是一个叛逆不平的富家女，在一个偶然的机会遇到了与自己个性迥然不同的艾薇，她热情开放的举止及特有的神秘色彩让茜维为之震撼，因好奇心驱使她一心想与她成为好友，因缘际会下，艾薇住进了茜维家，但从此灾难接踵而至，父亲被艾薇诱惑出轨，母亲离奇堕楼而亡……

大牌影星朱·巴瑞摩尔曾在著名科幻巨片《E.T.外星人》中饰演一位惹人喜爱的小女孩歌蒂，而在《欲海潮》一片中，观众所看到的巴瑞摩尔已不再是一个小女孩了，她已经成长为一名成熟性感的大艳女。　　茜维是一个叛逆不平的富家女，在一个偶然的机会遇到了与自己个性迥然不同的艾薇，她热情开放的举止及特有的神秘色彩让茜维为之震撼，因好奇心驱使她一心想与她成为好友，因缘际会下，艾薇住进了茜维家，但从此灾难接踵而至，父亲被艾薇诱惑出轨，母亲离奇堕楼而亡……