I've always enjoyed the sexual tension between Lector and Clarice. In Silence... it was almost certainly one sided but in Hannibal some kind of soft spot or appreciation/understanding in Clarice for Lector had developed. I love the direction of the film, the angles, the scenes (set in Florence) and the music (JS Bach's Goldberg Variations and the Opera's Vide Cor Meum) together offered a sexy background to the tension to create a very sexy film.