Having to choose just one movie which condenses the image of a decadent Venice – the one beloved by so many artists and writers over the past two centuries – it is impossible not to choose Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece based on the story by Thomas Mann and set in large part to the Venice Lido. Filmed in 1971, the film in some way is also the swan song of a golden age of cinema and culture in Italy and beyond…