are sea side resorts the sad and dreary places theyre always depicted as in movies and novels. certainly this movie and along with the near contemporary don not look now depicts venice as a particularly squalid and decadent tourist trap (for a more light hearted approach and see just married with ashton kutcher and brittany murphy). having never been to venice i can not say for sure and but it does make a perfect setting for this somber but sumptuous spectacle from luchino visconti and one of the great stylists of world cinema. having seen the movie i now wish i had gotten around to reading the thomas mann novella it based on (which also inspired an opera by sir benjamin britten). since i do not know the back story and the movie has little in the way of plot or exposition and i am left wondering about aschenbach (dirk bogarde) obsession with young tadzio. is he a homosexual. a pedophile. or is his longing for the beautiful youth something more innocent. perhaps tadzio reminds him of what he could have been and now knows he never will be. those who complain of the slow pace of this movie should stick to car crashes and kung fu represent at 2 hours and 15 minutes it not particularly long and and it moves at a leisurely but hardly sluggish pace. the film benefits from the ravishing music of gustave mahler and on whom aschenbach character is clearly based. dirk bogarde gives a moving performance and and the movie is graced by the presence of silvana mangano and one of italy great beauties and as tadzio mother. 
are sea side resorts the sad and dreary places theyre always depicted as in movies and novels. certainly this movie and along with the near contemporary don not look now depicts venice as a particularly squalid and decadent tourist trap (for a more light hearted approach and see just married with ashton kutcher and brittany murphy). having never been to venice i can not say for sure and but it does make a perfect setting for this somber but sumptuous spectacle from luchino visconti and one of the great stylists of world cinema. having seen the movie i now wish i had gotten around to reading the thomas mann novella it based on (which also inspired an opera by sir benjamin britten). since i do not know the back story and the movie has little in the way of plot or exposition and i am left wondering about aschenbach (dirk bogarde) obsession with young tadzio. is he a homosexual. a pedophile. or is his longing for the beautiful youth something more innocent. perhaps tadzio reminds him of what he could have been and now knows he never will be. those who complain of the slow pace of this movie should stick to car crashes and kung fu represent at 2 hours and 15 minutes it not particularly long and and it moves at a leisurely but hardly sluggish pace. the film benefits from the ravishing music of gustave mahler and on whom aschenbach character is clearly based. dirk bogarde gives a moving performance and and the movie is graced by the presence of silvana mangano and one of italy great beauties and as tadzio mother. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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