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‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: An Art-House Idol’s Fate
Art movies utilised to cross in excess of into the mainstream more than they do now, while it nevertheless transpires (just glimpse at the achievements of “Parasite”). But even again in the heyday of artwork-residence earthquakes like “Z” and “Last Tango in Paris,” there was a thing surreal about the crossover phenomenon of Björn Andrésen. He was the 15-12 months-old Swedish boy who director Luchino Visconti solid as the appreciate object in “Death in Venice,” his 1971 movie of Thomas Mann’s novel, and for a time Andrésen blew up like a pop star. “Death in Venice” was a grand, sluggish-shifting, and, to me, normally fairly stilted and awkward piece of…
