I'm just back from seeing Belle Epoque, and think it could well fit into this category. On which end of the polarity, I don't know. It seems to be a light, entertaining celebration of guilt-free carnality, but it has so many unsettling elements that I thought it was trying to show that what was being celebrated was a fool's paradise. It takes place at the beginning of the short-lived Republic in Spain, so I feel mildly confident about this initial reading. Who else has seen this, and how do you account for some of the darker elements, and the solitude that is displayed at the end? Stephen Brophy