In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort seeking repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), an adolescent 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 p... (Full plot summary below)
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In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort seeking repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), an adolescent 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 physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeGorgeous, sumptuous, and slow as an arthritic turtle. |
| TIME MagazineStefan KanferVisconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullBogarde plays Gustav with a hamfist, practically drooling over the kid he's stalking |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThere is much that is good in Death in Venice but long before it is over the movie begins to sink under the weight of it all. |
| Apollo GuideDan JardineA sumptuous visual feast, a well-told tale of a tortured artist's sturm und drung. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzCan never get to the literary heart of the novel without stumbling along on a curiously suffocating course. |
| BBC.comJamie RussellNot even the classical soundtrack can turn this ponderous portrait of one man's obsession into the cinematic classic it has so often been mistaken for. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertVisconti's mastery of visual style almost succeeds in creating the very ideas and feelings that his heavy-handed narrative entirely misses. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyInstead of bringing the story to life, Visconti has, I'm afraid, embalmed it. |
| User ReviewVítor SSe, em "Lolita", o amor platônico do homem de meia-idade pela menina que dá nome ao filme tem caráter sexual, aqui, em "Morte em Veneza", a obsessão do personagem do Bogarde pelo garoto Tadzio é de natureza ambígua, denotando um apreço pela perfeição estética como auge artístico. O filme narra a estada de Gustav, personagem do D. Bogarde, por Veneza, numa tentativa de relaxar após alguns eventos estressantes em sua carreira como músico. Em vez de conseguir encontrar a calmaria, Gustav se vê obcecado pela figura de Tadzio, um garoto na puberdade que se encontra com sua família no mesmo hotel em que se hospeda o protagonista. A atração pela beleza do menino cresce de forma incontrolável, de forma a assombrar Gustav, que tenta evitar esses sentimentos. Ao mesmo tempo, como que numa relação apocalíptica e moralista de crime e castigo, a cidade de Veneza vai sendo infestada por uma peste mortal. O mais impressionante no filme é, sem dúvidas, a forma contemplativa e poética como tudo é retratado. A narrativa, a partir do personagem do Bogarde, é quase silenciosa, agonizante e permeada por uma trilha perfeita. O protagonista parece tão irradiado pela beleza do Tadzio, que não se sabe ao certo se o menino corresponde levemente aos olhares ou se é apenas uma visão corrompida da realidade. Assim como em "Fale com Ela", "Morte em Veneza" tem como grande trunfo a confusão moral e visual que deixa no ar a respeito da pureza dos sentimentos retratados. |
