We're delighted to announce that THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD is having its UK premiere at this year's Sundance London on 30 July.
A haunting and stirring portrait of actor and former teen star Björn Andrésen (Death In Venice, Midsommar), Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s critically-acclaimed doc will be screening alongside 14 other brand new independent films.
Sundance London is taking place from 29 July to 1 August at Picturehouse Central. Tickets are now on sale for Picturehouse Members and Pass Holders, and will open to the general public on 7 June.
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.