The Ludwig Van Picture Show//Beethoven’s nephew

The video-musical series The Ludwig Van Picture Show ends on December 20 at 17 with Beethoven’s Nephew (1985), a movie by Paul Morrissey, reknowned filmmaker who collaborated with Andy Warhol. This movie, inspired by a book by Luigi Magnani, is focused on the story of Carl (1806-1858), the great composers’ nephews, whose biographies portrait him as a bad boy who ruined his deaf and weak uncle’s life. Magnani’s version of Carl’s personality differs from this: Carl is seen as a sick man trying really hard to emancipate from the morbid attachment of his uncle Ludwig. With Jane Birkin as Johanna, Carl’s mother, this movie features the nephew’s subjective point of view, whereas the musician’s repressed homosexuality works as a silent interpretation of this ambiguous relationship.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
20 December 2008, 17.00

Free entrance.

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