Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri's stunning and moving The Most Beautiful Boy in the World has been fascinating reviewers and the public alike since its Sundance premiere. Take a look back at the excellent reviews ahead of its release in cinemas and on demand on 30 July:
“A moving, melancholy study of aging under a fading spotlight.”
★★★★
Guy Lodge, Attitude
“A haunting exploration”
RogerEbert.com
“A cinephile’s dream”
Cineuropa
“A tender look at how beauty is fleeting and life is precious, no matter how much has been taken”
The Film Stage
“Revelatory”
★★★★
The Pink Lens
“Melancholic”
★★★★
Total Film
“Utterly fascinating”
★★★★
JumpCut
“A revelation”
Screen International
“An insightful and powerful exploration of a fame never sought, a beauty brought and sold, and a family life left fractured by tragedy”
★★★★
Cinerama
“A stirring portrait”
Vogue.com
“Disarmingly beautiful”
★★★★
The Skinny
In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragic events in what could be Bjorn’s last attempt for him to finally get his life back on track.