This, they say, suggests that as well as seducing our eyes, the images are stimulating our sense of smell.

“He feels very comfortable in a robe and seducing this ghost in his lair.”

And although Lewis confirms that there was a female agent on the ground, he notes that she was not, like the movie’s Marjorie, tasked with seducing Nazis.

Still, one wonders how much better this would be if its makers were more insistent on seducing the audience with humor instead of searching for ways to dance around it.

“May December” pivots on who is seducing or manipulating whom, which plays out through the final scene.