Like its BMW M235i Coupe stablemate, the open four - seater also has a distinctive and
authentic character rooted in the experience of BMW M GmbH as a developer of high - performance sports cars for general everyday use.
We can speculate on the
roots of its popularity: that it satisfies the genre and arthouse crowds; that it uses framing, sound, editing and camera movement to unreel a transfixing tale and flesh out excruciatingly
authentic characters; that it dares to coax out the ghosts lurking in every watery passageway in Venice, Europe's most ornate and singular city; that it contains arguably the greatest sex scene on film.