The aftermath by jen alexander5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The film framed him as the object of adult desire and offered him up for consumption in the boundaryless, taboo-busting entertainment market of 1971-an experience that had devastating effects on Andrésen’s self-esteem. In a new documentary, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, directors Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri tell the story of his overnight transformation from lonely teenager into screen icon in 1971, when director Luchino Visconti cast him as the exemplar of adolescent male beauty in his movie Death in Venice. ![]() Now 66, Andrésen remains best known for the natural beauty he possessed as an adolescent boy. This scene, which marks the moment that Midsommar turns unbearably gory, is elevated by Andrésen’s elegance his few lines are mostly hummed, but with his rangy El Greco limbs and the way his hair floats upward when he falls, Andrésen brings to Midsommar a quality one can only call grace. ![]() In Ari Aster’s 2019 film, Midsommar, he played the elderly man with long, gray hair who participates in the Harga community’s terrifying clifftop “Ättestupa” ritual. ![]() Though you may not know the name Björn Andrésen, you may well recall his face. ![]()
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