Sponsor
Cinematic Arts
Co-Sponsor(s)
Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Duke Arts; Romance Studies
Stream/Society--"Martin Eden" (Pietro Marcello, 2019)
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Virtual Screening, Fri 11/13-Sun 11/15:
"Martin Eden"
(Pietro Marcello, 2019, 129 min, Italy, Italian w/ subtitles)
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/MartinEden-Duke-Register
(Pre-Registration required to receive access to the film, which you can start watching any time between 12pm on Fri & 11:59pm on Sun. Once started, you have 24 hrs to finish the film.)
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, "Martin Eden" is a passionate & enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil & bourgeois success lead to political awakening & destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.
-- Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival
"Critic's Pick! Audacious and thrilling. An ingenious adaptation of the Jack London novel. Pure cinema." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"A movie that arrives like a bolt out of the blue, bursting with ideas, not unlike its hero." - J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books
View Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlYEd4MOCU
"Martin Eden"
(Pietro Marcello, 2019, 129 min, Italy, Italian w/ subtitles)
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/MartinEden-Duke-Register
(Pre-Registration required to receive access to the film, which you can start watching any time between 12pm on Fri & 11:59pm on Sun. Once started, you have 24 hrs to finish the film.)
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, "Martin Eden" is a passionate & enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil & bourgeois success lead to political awakening & destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.
-- Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival
"Critic's Pick! Audacious and thrilling. An ingenious adaptation of the Jack London novel. Pure cinema." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"A movie that arrives like a bolt out of the blue, bursting with ideas, not unlike its hero." - J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books
View Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlYEd4MOCU
