Stream/Society--Martin Eden (2019)

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Martin Eden
(Pietro Marcello, 2019, 129 min, Italy, Italian w/ English subtitles, Color)

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and 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 and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and 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, The 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

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