Martin Eden 2019
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About Martin Eden 💬
When unskilled laborer Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli) meets Elena Orsini (Jessica Cressy), the daughter of a wealthy industrial family, it's love at first sight. The well-educated, refined young woman soon becomes an obsession for Martin who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his humble origins to be able to marry Elena. With determination and at the cost of great hardship, Martin sets out to get the education that his class has never allowed him to receive. Finding support in an older friend, left-wing intellectual Russ Brissenden (Carlo Cecchi), Martin soon gets involved in socialist circles, leading not only to political reawakening and destructive anxiety, but also to a conflict with Elena and her bourgeois world.
Martin Eden tells our story, the story of people who weren't educated by their families or in school, but on the road. It's the novel of the self-taught and those who believed in education as an instrument of emancipation, but were somehow let down by it. Going beyond this first reading, however, «Martin Eden» not only tells the story of a young proletarian who falls in love with a young woman of a higher social class and begins to dream of becoming a writer, it also paints the portrait of a successful artist (a shadowy self-portrait of Jack London himself), who inevitably loses the sense of his own art. We loosely interpreted London's novel and took «Martin Eden» to be a fresco that foresaw the 20th-century's perversions and torments, as well as its crucial themes: the relationship between the individual and society, the role of mass culture, the class struggle... In the movie, the parable of the negative hero created by London opens with footage of the anarchist Errico Malatesta, then draws parallels with the lives and works of a number of the poète maudit writers of the 1900s, from Vladímir Majakóvskij to Stig Dagerman and Nora May French. We imagined our Martin crossing the 1900s, or rather a crasis, a dreamlike transposition of the 20th century, without time constraints, no longer in the original California of the novel but in a Naples that could be any city, anywhere in the world.
Pietro Marcello
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Martin Eden tells our story, the story of people who weren't educated by their families or in school, but on the road. It's the novel of the self-taught and those who believed in education as an instrument of emancipation, but were somehow let down by it. Going beyond this first reading, however, «Martin Eden» not only tells the story of a young proletarian who falls in love with a young woman of a higher social class and begins to dream of becoming a writer, it also paints the portrait of a successful artist (a shadowy self-portrait of Jack London himself), who inevitably loses the sense of his own art. We loosely interpreted London's novel and took «Martin Eden» to be a fresco that foresaw the 20th-century's perversions and torments, as well as its crucial themes: the relationship between the individual and society, the role of mass culture, the class struggle... In the movie, the parable of the negative hero created by London opens with footage of the anarchist Errico Malatesta, then draws parallels with the lives and works of a number of the poète maudit writers of the 1900s, from Vladímir Majakóvskij to Stig Dagerman and Nora May French. We imagined our Martin crossing the 1900s, or rather a crasis, a dreamlike transposition of the 20th century, without time constraints, no longer in the original California of the novel but in a Naples that could be any city, anywhere in the world.
Pietro Marcello
Martin Eden Movie Details 🎥
Directed by
Pietro Marcello
Writing Credits
Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci (Screenplay)
Jack London (Novel)
Starring
Luca Marinelli
Jessica Cressy
Carlo Cecchi
Chiara Francini
Vincenzo Nemolato
Denise Sardisco
Lana Vlady
Marco Leonardi
Autilia Ranieri
Elisabetta Valgoi
Giustiniano Alpi
Pietro Ragusa
Carmen Pommella
Savino Paparella
Vincenza Modica
Anna Patierno
Gaetano Bruno
Maurizio Donadoni
Jessica Cressy
Carlo Cecchi
Chiara Francini
Vincenzo Nemolato
Denise Sardisco
Lana Vlady
Marco Leonardi
Autilia Ranieri
Elisabetta Valgoi
Giustiniano Alpi
Pietro Ragusa
Carmen Pommella
Savino Paparella
Vincenza Modica
Anna Patierno
Gaetano Bruno
Maurizio Donadoni
Music by
Marco Messina
Sacha Ricci
Cinematography by
Alessandro Abate
Francesco Di Giacomo
Genres: Drama, Romance
Countries: Italy, France, Germany
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