Juno Films has acquired US and Canadian rights to the documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, the Kristina Lindstom and Kristian Petri movie set to premiere within the World Documentary Competitors at this 12 months’s Sundance Film Festival.
Produced by Stina Gardell’s Stockholm-based Mantaray Movie, the movie follows former youngster star Björn Andrésen who performed Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 movie adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Dying in Venice. Juno Movies will launch the movie in theaters in Might 2021.
The brand new movie follows Andrésen, who was thrust to worldwide stardom on the age of fifteen primarily based on his iconic seems to be, as he wistfully displays on his stardom. In 1969, Visconti traveled all through Europe searching for the right boy to personify absolute magnificence within the movie, and a 12 months later found Andrésen, a shy Swedish teenager whom he dropped at worldwide fame in a single day and led to spend a brief however intense a part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Movie Competition and the so-distant Japan.
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In 1971 on the London premiere of Dying in Venice, the director proclaimed his Tadzio as “the world’s most stunning boy.” Fifty years after the premiere, Andrésen takes us on a outstanding journey made of private recollections, cinema historical past, stardust and tragic occasions in what may very well be his final try for him to get his life on monitor.
“We filmed The Most Lovely Boy within the World throughout 5 years in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Budapest, Venice, and Tokyo, following in Björn’s footsteps,” says director Kristian Petri. Co-director Kristina Lindstrom provides “It’s a story about obsession with magnificence, about want and sacrifice, a couple of boy whose life was modified without end when the movie director Luchino Visconti declared him to be the, ‘World’s most stunning boy.’ Who was this boy and what occurred to him? This movie lets us take heed to the boy’s personal story. He, who was made into a picture by others, an icon, a fantasy, which took over his younger life.”
The deal was negotiated by Elizabeth Sheldon, founding accomplice and Chief Government Officer of Juno Movies. Movie Boutique just lately introduced that they’ve acquired Worldwide Gross sales Rights.
