Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Björn Andrésen, the Swedish boy who played the character of Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's legendary Death in Venice, has just world-premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition of the Sundance Film Festival. (The article continues below - Commercial information) In 1970, Visconti was travelling Europe in search of the boy who would embody the perfect beauty that Thomas Mann described in his seminal novel. A wealth of impressive archive material shows the imposing, aristocratic, communist, openly gay auteur and the young actor during the casting, the filming, the world premiere in ...
Source: cineuropa.org
