This year’s competition programme at the 79th Mostra del Cinema in Venice offered a programme with extraordinary performances, beautiful narratives and exciting visuals, which is sadly not reflected in the award of the Golden Lion – but about that later. What is tantalizing is that so many of the films touched upon the theme of death, screening on the very same Lido where Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice unfolded, and in a building along the road from the now abandoned Hôtel des Bains where his Gustav von Aschenbach resided, and died.

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