This movie opens at Sundance on Friday. It is a documentary that discusses the tragedy that befell the young boy who was chosen by openly gay director Luchino Visconti for his movie Death In Venice in 1970. The boy is incredibly beautiful and huge stardom results from the movie. This new movie shows the dangers that such popularity can come to child actors, particularly for children who come from rather tragic circumstances before their stardom. However no one seems to want to protect the children's interests and the children seem incapable to do so even as adults. When Visconti was casting for his movie Andersen (the lead) was so beautiful he looked like something out of a Caravaggio painting. In the movie Visconti notes however that "to put the eyes on beauty is to put the eyes on death."
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