Shall we talk about cinema? is a film forum organised by the Museu del Cinema. It consists of ten annual sessions and reviews the history of the cinema through directors who have defined an era and influenced later generations.

This month we’re screening: Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) by Luchino Visconti (Italia, 1971), 125 minutes, VOSE

In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.

Prior registration required. Entrance: free. Introduced by: Jordi Dorca. Organized by: Museo del Cine