Sometimes advertising seems very flashy and fun, but on the inside, as many stars can attest to, it can cause many mental problems.
People who have gained a certain level of fame for even a short time, may get depressed from the moment the buzz around them subsides - and this makes a lot of sense given the fact that there are those who live solely thanks to publicity.
One particularly notable case is that of Bjorn Andersen, who in 1971, when he was only 15 years old, became a huge world star after appearing in the film "Death in Venice" by Italian director Lucino Visconti as a boy who won a writer's affection.
At the film's premiere, which was even attended by Queen Elizabeth, the renowned director declared that Andersen is "the most beautiful boy in the world" - and this obligatory title has accompanied him ever since, so many years after the film's release.
Now that he's another 67-year-old, his great glory days are long behind him, but as seen in "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World," the documentary about him, he is not looking for them at all anymore.
Yes, he is still in the entertainment business, playing in several projects from time to time (in 2019 he even starred in the excellent horror film "Midsummer", in a small role that shattered every male for that beautiful boy) and in other events that remind the world of his existence, but he does it mostly to make a living .
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Today he lives in a rather small and messy apartment, and his landlord even threatens to evict him from it because he is, he claims, a danger to his neighbors.
He also has a spouse a few decades younger than him, and the relationship with his daughter continues to be as shaky as it has been more or less ever since.
Throughout the film, the duo of directors Christina Lindstrom and Christian Petri, a cloud of depression hovers over Andersen, which seems to follow him wherever he goes - and hurts in all his steps.
But the cause of that depression is much deeper than "another celeb struggling to cope with the passing of fame."
It is something stronger, much earlier, that has accompanied him since he was a child, when his mother was absent.
Lindstrom and Petrie choose to go all the way under the same cloud, creating a documentary that manages to surprise that instead of being another documentary that follows a past celeb, he prefers to focus on the personal story at that person's base.
Of course it is impossible not to provide viewers with the behind-the-scenes archive of "Death in Venice" (of which Andersen's audition for the role is one), but as mentioned, at one point, despite all the difficulty that accompanied Andersen at the time ("I was quite scared, it was a nightmare of Really, "he says." I wanted to be someone else, somewhere else "), the two change direction - but do not give up the melancholy atmosphere that accompanies the film since its opening (this, by the way, thanks in no small part to the film's phenomenal soundtrack). psychological).
The binding name of the film, just like the "title" from which it was taken, may make viewers think that a pleasant and uncomplicated viewing of a 90-minute document about a star whose star has faded awaits them, but this is not the case.
Instead, it is challenging and disturbing, in the most positive sense of the word.
It presents the negative aspects of fame in the worst sense, and shows how it can cause people to produce new complexes, perhaps even deepen existing ones, in their lives.
The phrase “not all that glitters is gold” is ever more relevant.
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The movie "The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" will
premiere on
yes
docu on December 28 at 22:00, and is available to watch on
yesVOD
and
StingTV
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