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Abroad on a rest holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach (Dick Bogarde) is to all the world reserved and civilized. But when he glimpses someone who inspires him to give way to a secret passion, it foreshadows his doom. Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Damned) transforms Thomas Mann's classic novel into "a masterwork of power and beauty" (William Wolf, Cue). Like Aschenbach, Visconti is an artist obsessed: his movies are awash in mood, period detail and seething emotions beneath placid surfaces. Earning its maker a Cannes Film Festival Special 25th Anniversary Prize, Death in Venice - with a soundtrack feast of Gustav Mahler music and a haunting Bogarde performance-is Visconti at his best.
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Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 1/30/2007 4:19:41 AM
yes, the movie is masterfully done.and speaking of death, re. the question that has been euphemized to death by critics; IS aschenbach's "passion" for tadzio sexual, or proFOUNDly aesthetic, and paraDOXically complex, i don't see why it can't be both.but if i must choose between one or the other, then for once i cast my vote in favor of the obvious explanation...ciao.
Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 1/30/2007 4:19:41 AM
yes, the movie is masterfully done.and speaking of death, re. the question that has been euphemized to death by critics; IS aschenbach's "passion" for tadzio sexual, or proFOUNDly aesthetic, and paraDOXically complex, i don't see why it can't be both.but if i must choose between one or the other, then for once i cast my vote in favor of the obvious explanation...ciao.
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Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 1/30/2007 4:19:41 AM
yes, the movie is masterfully done.and speaking of death, re. the question that has been euphemized to death by critics; IS aschenbach's "passion" for tadzio sexual, or proFOUNDly aesthetic, and paraDOXically complex, i don't see why it can't be both.but if i must choose between one or the other, then for once i cast my vote in favor of the obvious explanation...ciao.
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