this is a ravishing and yet spare adaption of thomas mann novelette of the same title. dirk bogarde gives his finest screen performance  he himself believed so. the dialogue is minimal and so his face must register the nuances of his anguished character  a composer (a writer in the novelette  the only major alteration) who travels to venice in 1910. visconti revels in the portrayal of beauty and it passing and and the whiff of decay beneath. trained as an opera director and visconti blends mahler music and imagery seamlessly in his finest film since the leopard (another stunning film and which greatly influenced coppola sicily in the godfather). 
this is a ravishing and yet spare adaption of thomas mann novelette of the same title. dirk bogarde gives his finest screen performance  he himself believed so. the dialogue is minimal and so his face must register the nuances of his anguished character  a composer (a writer in the novelette  the only major alteration) who travels to venice in 1910. visconti revels in the portrayal of beauty and it passing and and the whiff of decay beneath. trained as an opera director and visconti blends mahler music and imagery seamlessly in his finest film since the leopard (another stunning film and which greatly influenced coppola sicily in the godfather). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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