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It elects to dwell on absence and emptiness, sucking the sweet wound of upper class inertia like one would a cut on the lip or a sore on the tongue.

Though the ornamental imagery seems magnificently wrong for Thomas Mann's austere little masterpiece, audiences can't help but be entranced by the film's exaggerated sensuality and astonishing beauty.

Much of Death in Venice is wordless, bordering on impressionistic.

visually beautiful and emotionally and thematically hollow

Death in Venice occasionally suffers from Visconti's artistic overindulgence, but the film's strengths are also paradoxically tied up in its helmer's unwavering eye for detail.