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Leopardi (Giacomo Leopardi, the poet) is a child prodigy growing up under his father’s implacably watchful eye in a library that serves as a home. His mind ranges free but his home is a prison: he reads everything but the universe is elsewhere. In Europe, the world is changing, revolutions break out and Giacomo desperately seeks contact with the outside. At 24, when he finally leaves Recanati, Italian high class society opens its doors to him but our rebel does not adapt.
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Cast:
Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio -
Original Title:
Il Giovane Favoloso -
Country:
Italy -
Year:
2014 - 135' Subtitles: Portuguese, English
Director
Mario Martone
Director and Screenwriter, 1958, Italy. Mario Martone began his career in the theater and was one of the co-founders of the Neapolitan group Falso Movimento, in 1977, a leading contemporary avant-garde collective. Being interested in the dialogue between different artistic expressions since early in his career, the transition to cinema came naturally in the 1990s, through films like Rehearsals for War (1998) or the historical fresco We Believed (2010), Martone questioned the place of violence and art in society. His first feature-film, Morte di un Matematico Napoletano, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1992.
