The movie

Death in Venice
‘A feast for the senses, Visconti's darkly enchanting film presents us not only with the beauty of the desired youth… but also with a vision of the city of Venice unmatched in its wondrousness before or since.
Description
‘A feast for the senses, Visconti's darkly enchanting film presents us not only with the beauty of the desired youth… but also with a vision of the city of Venice unmatched in its wondrousness before or since. It's a city just as beautiful in death as in life, in a state of decay as it is struck by cholera. Once bright fountains foam ominously; broken people huddle in alleyways; doors are barred with crosses and the blue water of the canals grows shadowy with menace, yet this can only add to its allure, the threat of destruction compounding its romance… Innately melodramatic, unremittingly languorous, “Death In Venice” is as complete a film as can be, existing in its own space and on its own terms.’—Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film