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 massive Visconti-led talent search, was Bjorn Andresen.
A much older Andresen plays an important role, and very well too, in Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.”
65 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967) Part One. – TheBrownees
65 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967). Part Two. – TheBrownees
65 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (Table) – TheBrownees
45 Queer Films from 1967-1976: Queer Cinema Comes Out – TheBrownees
