{"id":12875,"date":"2023-03-13T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T08:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restarted.hr\/?p=12875"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:08:10","slug":"the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world-in-cinemas-from-march-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restarted.hr\/en\/news\/the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world-in-cinemas-from-march-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” in cinemas from March 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distributed by Restart Label<\/a>, the Swedish documentary film “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World<\/a>” is coming to independent cinemas across the country, which problematizes sexual objectification and the weight of fame on the example of the tragic fate of Bj\u00f6rn Andr\u00e9sen, the boy who embodied the ideal of absolute beauty in Visconti’s classic “Death in Venice”.<\/p>\n

In 1970, the famous Italian director Luchino Visconti travels through Europe in search of a boy with a perfect face worthy of the ideal of absolute beauty for the purposes of his new film, an adaptation of the novel by Thomas Mann. In Stockholm, he discovers Bj\u00f6rn Andr\u00e9sen, a shy 15-year-old with an angelic face, whom he hires for the role and calls him “the most beautiful boy in the world”. As a result of the great success of “Death in Venice”, Bj\u00f6rn’s face becomes world famous, film critics of the time compare him to Michelangelo’s David, and he spends a short but intense part of his youth between Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and faraway Japan, completely lost and vulnerable in the predatory atmosphere of circles that objectify his appearance and exploit his youth, thus turning him into “the saddest man in the world”.<\/p>\n