Proudly displayed codpieces, after all, could be empty.

I hurried through the galleries of sarcophagi and burnished codpieces, not yet ready for them, needing something more familiar, accessible.

``If you're not prepared to make yourself vulnerable in a relationship and thus make a total fool of yourself, its not going to work,'' says Oscar- winning actor Ben Kingsley (``Gandhi,'' ``Sexy Beast''), who does just that in ``The Triumph of Love,'' the new film fairly bursting with bustles and codpieces, directed by Clare Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci's wife.