DIRECTOR: Luchino Visconi

BOTTOM LINE:  After “The Damned”, Visconti and Bogarde collaborated on adapting the Thomas Mann novel “Death in Venice”. It’s gorgeous if a bit slow-moving. Visconti’s best idea was changing von Aschenbach’s profession from a writer to a composer opening up the movie to the magnificent Gustav Mahler Adagietto (Symphony No.5). The object of beauty, who was presented after a huge Visconti-led talent search, was Bjorn Andresen.

A much older Andresen plays an important role, and very well too, in Ari Aster’s “Midsommar”

POST TITLE: Twenty-Seven Queer Films 1967-1976. Queer Cinema Comes Out.

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SUBCATEGORY: Queer Film

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