Martin Eden
Pietro Marcello uses the archive to at once contextualize and decontextualize a story stemming from Jack London's 1909 novel, transposed to Naples. In love with a bourgeois lady, a young proletarian man is driven by his voracity for knowledge and decides to become a writer. Naples as Oakland, as every port is a place to land in or flee from, with the chance of fortune uncertain, at a time of troubling struggles and social discord.
With this film, Marcello traverses both the entire twentieth century and our most recent history. There is the depression of the first decades; the socialists, the anarchists, the post-war suburbs, the working-class neighborhoods that are still present today. Martin Eden is a antihero who will duly be swallowed up by the disillusionment of the time. He is passionate and wild, sophisticated and popular, like Marcello, like the film itself, with a camera capable of poetic roughness, that lets its characters unleash their feelings and grabs the right angle on every occasion. The film has no message other than a roar, an angry invocation of individualism in the face of the impossibility of social resolution. This unique and urgent voice shows a continuity with Marcello's previous works and shines forth in one of the most remarkable and essential films of the year. (Eva Sangiorgi)
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- Denise Sardisco
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- Maurizio Braucci
- Pietro Marcello
- Alessandro Abate
- Francesco Di Giacomo
- Stefano Grosso
- Aline Hervé
- Fabrizio Federico
- Marco Messina
- Sacha Ricci
- Paolo Marzocchi
- Luca Servino
- Roberto De Angelis
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