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Death In Venice (1971)
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Abroad on a rest holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach (Dick Bogarde) is to all the world reserved and civilized. But when he glimpses someone who inspires him to give way to a secret passion, it foreshadows his doom. Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Damned) transforms Thomas Mann's classic novel into "a masterwork of power and beauty" (William Wolf, Cue). Like Aschenbach, Visconti is an artist obsessed: his movies are awash in mood, period detail and seething emotions beneath placid surfaces. Earning its maker a Cannes Film Festival Special 25th Anniversary Prize, Death in Venice - with a soundtrack feast of Gustav...
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| Death In Venice Movie Review by BillyBob (4/15/2009) |
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According to my flaming, old Uncle JEETS (he's my mom's 'out-of-the-closet' brother), this tacky, sordid flick was one of HARVEY MILK's favorites of all time. I guess my Uncle JEETS knows what he's talking about since he had personally met 'MISS-TER' MILK on several occasions. Uncle JEETS had been living in San Francisco...
(complete Death In Venice review by BillyBob)
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