Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971) — Beautification of an Ugly Death
5 min readApr 29, 2020
Death in Venice (1971) directed by Luchino Visconti is a film that is highly subjective and impressionistic, and there is often a glaring oppositionality in several of its themes. In the pursuit of beauty, the protagonist Aschenbach searches desperately for it in the “spirit” against the “flesh”, finds a distance between himself and his desired object and is…
