Staying at my Dads caravan this weekend, went through the DVD collection and the movie there on the shelf and it has been a quilty pleasure of mine Death in Venice.

First saw film when I was about 14 now i;m 23 and can't think of another young person who will enjoy it as I do and on some many levels.
Always been in love with shots and the beginning with boat on the sea. (Reminds of Joseph Turner- Fighting Temeraire)

Anyone who hss seen knows that the movie deals woth homosexual overtures and pedeophilla but some how we accept this movie and story and call it a pieace of cinematic art.

This movie cannot suffer from a terrible remake it would not work and everyone got to use CGI no matter what the film is.

Going to leave you with Mahla.

a beautiful film on so many levels that only Visconti could have made.

The music is used superbly.

You know of course when the producers showed the movie to their American execs. one said "whose going to watch a movie about some old fag following a boy around but the music is good-sign up the composer"

Spot on Andrew - it's in my all time top ten and my huge admiration for Dirk Bogarde - who was privately in the closet yet dared to take two high profile parts as a gay (when it was totally illegal) in Victim and as as boy lover in Death In Venice.

Another of my favourite films - Don't Look Now - is also set in Venice but a very different Venice - in winter.

Don't Look Now is a supberb movie but has dated badly, but shots of Venice in Winter are beautiful and makes want to go in winter.

JK I did not know Dirk Bogarde was homosexual I only seen him in Death in Venice.

Anyone seen Immortal Beloved ?

I knew from a teenager because Dirk lived with his manager/lover Tony in nearby Cranleigh; everyone in the area knew but was discreet. Funnily enough in those pre legality days, society was far more tolerant than today and media never exposed people if they could avoid it.