Death in Venice

  • 1971


MOVIE IS ornamental overwrought overblown classical
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Positive Reviews 10
Negative reviews 2
Average Rating 3.6/5
ornamental overwrought overblown classical

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3.1
The wind brings both plague and beauty, which is its function in the Mann novel, and Viscontis mastery of visual style almost succeeds in creating the .. Rogerebert
3.0
Visconti keeps it campy, lushly photographed and has too many overblown hollow emotional scenes that seem ludicrous and hardly poignant to warrant too .. Sover
4.5
Despite the omissions from Manns text, dependence on flashbacks, and overwrought arguments about art and music between Aschenbach and a colleague, it .. Tv Guide
2.0
Viscontis style and sensibility have stirred controversy among among American critics. Emanuellevy
2.5
Visconti doesnt give Bogarde much to do but pine and fuss, instead handing most of the heavy lifting over to Gustav Mahlers Third and Fifth Symphonies .. Q Network
5.0
Innately melodramatic, unremittingly langurous, Death In Venice is as complete a film as can be, existing in its own space and on its own terms.Not ev .. Eye For Film
3.0
Not even the classical soundtrack can turn this ponderous portrait of one mans obsession into the cinematic classic it has so often been mistaken for. Bbc
2.5
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it. Film Freak Central
4.5
It is a pitiable ending for a pitiable character consumed with forbidden desires. Spectrum Culture
4.5
Though the ornamental imagery seems magnificently wrong for Thomas Manns austere little masterpiece, audiences cant help but be entranced by the films .. Los Angeles Free Press
4.5
But Death in Venice works, as a tale, a moral instruction and as art.Of all authors, Mann was the least ingenuous. Content Time
4.0
Thats the basis behind Victim, a socio conscious noir where a picture of one man consoling another runs a streak of destruction through multiple lives .. Boulder Weekly
1.5
There is much that is good in Death in Venice but long before it is over the movie begins to sink under the weight of it all. Cleveland Press
3.0
It elects to dwell on absence and emptiness, sucking the sweet wound of upper class inertia like one would a cut on the lip or a sore on the tongue. Unseen Films



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