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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - VHS | | | Format: | VHS | | Rating: | PG | | | Leading Role: | Dirk Bogarde | | Condition: | Used | | | Director: | Luchino Visconti | | | | | | Format: | NTSC (US, Canada) | | | | | | Genre: | Drama | | | | | | Sub-Genre: | -- | | | | | | |
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Death In Venice
Year: 1971
Condition: Previous rental in nice shape.
Description: 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.
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| Movie description | Luchino Visconti utilized striking cinematography and a precise narrative in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE. The filmmaker was known for
his deliberate, masterly work in films that delved deeply into a significant historical era or figure.
The story follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde), who arrives in Venice by steamboat 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 his harsh and competitive friend, Alfred (Mark Burns), who criticized Aschenbach's
music for being too technically perfect and thus lacking in beauty and passion.
Via these glimpses into the past, we see that Aschenbach feels defeated in both his personal and his professional lives.
The film uses very little dialogue, relying largely on the characters' facial expressions to communicate the protagonist's tortured psyche, young Tadzio's curious vanity, and the pretentious 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" (as narrated in Mann's novel) and the city is being sequestered to prevent the spread of a cholera outbreak.
With slow and concentrated pacing, some hauntingly surreal scenes, and a color scheme consisting of bold blacks and stark whites that are a constant reminder of the inevitable, DEATH IN VENICE captures the poignancy of Mann's novel with a sharp, sinister, and unwavering accuracy.
| | Credits | | Producer: | Luchino Visconti | | Cast: | Bjorn Andresen, Bruno Baschetti, Carole Andre, Ciro Cristofoletti, Dirk Bogarde, Dominique Darel, Franco Fabrizi, Leslie French, Luigi Battaglia, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Masha Predit, Mireilla Pompili, Nora Ricci, Romolo Valli, Sergio Garfagnoli, Silvana Mangano |
| | Notes | Theatrical release: June 17, 1971
| | Editorial reviews | "...Visconti and cinematographer Pasquale De Santis impressively recreate an overcast, fin-de-siecle Venice..."
Total Film - Tom Dawson (03/01/2003)
"[A] visually ornate adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella of obsession and mortal rot….Beautiful, stately..."
Premiere - Glenn Kenny (03/01/2004)
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