Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) (1971)

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I already saw this movie but since it was ages ago, I was quite eager to check it out again. Indeed, the first time I saw it, I must have been about 16-17 years and, at the time, I didn’t get this movie at all. Indeed, back then, I kept hearing some really great things about this flick and since I always had a weak spot fot Luchino Visconti’s work, I was expecting a masterpiece but, to be hone... read more

This movie is just a predator’s wet dream - I’m sure it was just the director’s excuse for finding a boy to prey honestly. Disturbing.

In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.