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‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: The Angelic ’70s Teen Idol of ‘Death in Venice’ and What Became of Him

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticArt films used to cross over into the mainstream more than they do now, though it still happens (just look at the success of “Parasite”).

But even back in the heyday of art-house earthquakes like “Z” and “Last Tango in Paris,” there was something surreal about the crossover phenomenon of Björn Andrésen.

He was the 15-year-old Swedish boy who director Luchino Visconti cast as the love object in “Death in Venice,” his 1971 film of Thomas Mann’s novel, and for a time Andrésen blew up like a pop star. “Death in Venice” was a grand, slow-moving, and, to me, always rather stilted and awkward piece of lavish-souled literary adaptation.

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