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In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty ... [+]
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August 16, 2009
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Incomparable argumentación sobre el concepto de la Belleza. La confrontación de un intelectual (insuperable actuación de Dirk Bogarde!) con su concepción espiritual de la Belleza y la realidad de ésta encarnada por un bello adolescente, lo llevan a abdicar totalmente de sus ideas. Un marco magistral de una Venezia asolada por la peste. Una de las pocas películas que hacen honor al libro. A mi juicio, imperdible!