New trailer drops for documentary ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’

[danielonds]

Fifty years after the premiere of ‘Death in Venice’, Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri’s celebrated documentary explores the life of Björn Andrésen, the former teen star who embodied the legendary character Tadzio and whom director Luchino Visconti dubbed “the most beautiful boy in the world.”In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled

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Björn as Tadzio

[danielonds]

Re: Björn as Tadzio

[januarysix]

He looks like he belongs in like "the never-ending story" or some other 80's style fantasy flick

Re: Björn as Tadzio

[patenipat]

like a young lestat de lioncourt.

[harrypotentilla]

fr

Re: Björn as Tadzio

[harrypotentilla]

actually i take that back. maybe more of a laurent? wasn't lestat more athletic in build idk

Re: Björn as Tadzio

[patenipat]

you mean armand, right? :D but yes, this would fit armand better if applied to when he was turned. (that's why I wrote 'young' lestat, as in pre vampire form.)

[harrypotentilla]

holy moses yes oops that’s the one, sweet botticelli prince moping around europe looking like a perma-teen heir. what a throwback

[patenipat]

laurent was a good one though! his name was changed a few times; I just looked it up to make sure I'm not misremembering now - andrei first, then amadeo, armand...
yesss @ throwback.

[harrypotentilla]

idk why i keep mixing those two up! i gotta go back and read those books again, it’s been forever

[patenipat]

anne rice's characters all kind of blur sometimes.. Marius' and Armands books have so many cross-over stories as well.
I was also thinking about rereading them, but I fear their long-windedness.