Greatest Movie Scenes #63 - DEATH IN VENICE
The unforgettable end scene of one of Luchino Visconti's greatest and often critically confused film.
Death in Venice, one of Luchino Visconti's greatest films. The best scene of the movie is the one below as a dying German composer played by Dick Bogarde watches what he believes is the a thing of beauty, an innocent faced young boy in the Venice sea pointing towards the great abyss of the ocean. The heat beams down on Bogarde, his face almost melts at the beauty, his face goes ghastly white and his heart can't take such a sublime image, you almost believe he can hear the film's emotional score on that lonesome beach. A really complicated movie from Visconti which I believe is far more about aging than sexual obsession, although there is certainly an undercurrent of that the film is much more about time... it's effect on our perceptions of beauty and even our own mortality.
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