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Death in Venice
Luchino Visconti`s striking adaptation of Thomas Mann`s DEATH IN VENICE follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde). As the film begins, Aschenbach is arriving by steam boat in Venice from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervou... Luchino Visconti`s striking adaptation of Thomas Mann`s DEATH IN VENICE follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde). As the film begins, Aschenbach is arriving by steam boat in Venice from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervous, uncomfortable, and conflicted. Nonetheless, he settles into a breathtaking seaside resort, where he fixates on Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), an angelic blond Polish boy who is there with his family. While flashbacks to happy times spent with his wife and small daughter fill in some of the blanks of Aschenbach`s personal past, others recall Aschenbach`s harsh and competitive friend, Alfred (Mark Burns), who criticized Aschenbach`s music for being overly perfected and thus lacking in beauty and passion. Through these flashbacks, it becomes evident that Aschenbach feels defeated in both his personal and his professional lives. The film uses very little dialogue, relying largely on the characters`s facial expressions to communicate the tortured mentality of the protagonist, the curious vanity of young Tadzio, and the precocious airs of the bourgeois women who parade the Venetian beaches in taffeta, bonnets, and parasols. As Aschenbach`s infatuation with Tadzio grows beyond his control, he learns that, Venice is gripped by pestilence, and the city is being sequestered to prevent the spread of a cholera outbreak. With concentrated, slow pacing, a color scheme consisting of bold blacks and stark whites that are a constant reminder of the inevitable, and some hauntingly surreal scenes, DEATH IN VENICE captures the poignancy of Mann`s novel with a sharp, sinister, and unwavering accuracy.
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| This opera describes the moral and physical degeneration of Aschenbach, the writer whose obsessive and self-devouring pursuit of beauty in the form of a boy leads him to humiliation and death. Performed in two acts for the Glyndebourne. |
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| Thomas Mann`s mournful, poignant novel gets adapted into a moving opera here. Mann`s novel tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a solitary writer who summers in Venice, where he becomes obsessed with an angelic teenage boy. Tortured by his stran... |
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