Film Pitch: Death In Venice (Remake)

'Lured by those eyes, led on the leading-string of his own passion and folly, utterly love-sick he stole upon the footsteps of his unseemly hope and at the end found himself cheated.'

On a visit to Venice/Brighton the ageing writer Gustav von Fagburn encounters a young Olympic medal-winning diver by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.
Bewitched and agonised, he desires to please...
Using the stifling atmosphere of Brighton - what with the bin men being on strike and that - to heighten the unbearable sense of oppression, this is a sensitive and haunting portrayal of blind passion.
But perhaps this is a love that cannot be?
Swirling music by Mahler plays as von Fagburn dies coughing on the beach, utterly, utterly alone.
Fin.