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Martin Williams on Instagram: "There are various criteria a film or television drama must meet in order to qualify for a place on my on-going list of ‘Edwardian’ recommendations. The direction must be expert, the writing intelligent, the production values high and the acting first-rate. Ideally, too, it should *look* fantastic; not merely accurate (or at the very least plausible) but beautiful to boot. It’s on that final count that Luchino Visconti’s 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella Death in Venice scores most highly. I’m not going to pretend that my love for this movie is unalloyed. It’s so slow as to be soporific, while the narrative (such as it is) is as much a condition or state of mind as a story. I know that Dirk Bogarde’s performance is regarded by the cognoscenti as an Princess Aesthetic Dresses, Decades Aesthetic, Mediterranean Aesthetic, Luchino Visconti, Period Movies, Summer Cottage, Princess Aesthetic, Vintage Beach, Period Dramas

Martin Williams on Instagram: "There are various criteria a film or television drama must meet in order to qualify for a place on my on-going list of ‘Edwardian’ recommendations. The direction must be expert, the writing intelligent, the production values high and the acting first-rate. Ideally, too, it should *look* fantastic; not merely accurate (or at the very least plausible) but beautiful to boot. It’s on that final count that Luchino Visconti’s 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 1912…

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