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Martin Eden

2019

Pietro Marcello

Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Carlo Cecchi, Denise Sardisco ...

6.8

3,578

Drama. Romance It tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor (Martin Eden), who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossible love, pursuit of the American Dream, and the quest for a comfortable place in an inconstant world.

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Marinelli is a force of nature in every scene (...) All the other actors are bit players around this towering performance (...) If only the same could have been said of the film’s screenplay."
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"It’s as if the whole 20th century had been distilled, or scrambled, into an eternal, mercurial now (...) This disorientation is very much the film’s point and one of its many pleasures"
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A film that achieves, here and there, a lyrical fusion of past and present while celebrating the vitality of working-class Naples"
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"An unwieldy intellectual sprawl whose incontestable visual pleasures (...) distract from the shallow characterizations, all of which are representatives of varying theories rather than people of independent thought and disposition."
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Pietro Marcello takes an inventive, excitingly irreverent approach to London’s novel"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[A] spry but frustratingly vague Italian adaptation of a socialist classic"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"In a cooped-up age, the great escapes and far-off horizons of Jack London’s fiction feel resonant"
		Beatrice Loayza AV Club	"[It] has all the pleasurable characteristics of a simmering romance and a poignant tragedy"
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Pietro Marcello’s heady spin on a Jack London tale offers a trip to a woozily sensual twentieth-century Naples (...) It’s a nakedly political film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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