Saturday, April 14, 2012
GENERATION GAP
Today's gay film was Visconti's
The Thomas Mann novel translated into a beautiful visualization starring Dirk Bogarde.
Gustav Von Aschenbach meets Tadzio.
Well, they never meet. Aschenbach stalks him and the kid responds. A flirter who knows what he is doing.
Look. This is not actually a gay movie it is really about obsession, a twist of pedophilia and just a bit of teen age flirting. But it is the most gay film you are likely to see as a full length feature. Everything is queer.
Gay history reveals that a lot of films were blatantly gay and somehow passed. I think here it is saved because it was written by Mann, also a closet case, and produced by Visconti.
It is totally gorgeous and the music is all Mahler.
First class.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
