Rating of
3/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 03/01/13
Death in Venice is slow-moving, but fully captures the ethereal nature of the book. The beautiful cinematography often captures frames that could be frozen as a painting and visually captures a lot of the film's best themes of beauty and mortality. The decaying city of Venice, set upon by a plague of cholera, makes for a powerful setting for the film's waning moments, which are its best.
