Famed film critic Roger Ebert turned down the chance to watch this movie at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, after discovering his colleague Richard Corliss and his wife had walked out of a screening twenty minutes in. According to Ebert, Mary Corliss said "the movie made her feel like rats were fighting in her skull."
The museum Ventura visits (around 40 minutes in the film) is Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon. The works he looks at are by the Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, among others.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #511.