OPENS FEBRUARY 14, CERT 12A, 130 MINS
Either painfully slow or magnificently elegiac according to taste, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novel stars Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach, a composer seeking solace in pre-WWI Venice following a breakdown. At his hotel, he glimpses a 15-year-old boy (played by the perturbingly pretty Bj
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