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LEOPARDI

IL GIOVANE FAVOLOSO

By Mario MARTONE

SPAFAX UK - as BUYER REP

Drama - Completed 2014

The poet Leopardi abhors hypocrisy, is unlucky in love but fortunate in friendship. He will find inspiration in the poverty and vitality of Naples.

Ventana Sur 2014

European Cinema

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2014

VENEZIA 71

TIFF - TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014 2014

Contemporary World Cinema

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 135 mn
- Director(s)
- Mario MARTONE
- Writer(s)
- Mario MARTONE, Ippolita DI MAJO
- Cast
- Elio GERMANO, Michele RIONDINO, Anna MOUGLALIS, Isabella RAGONESE
- Producer(s)
- Carlo DEGLI ESPOSTI (PALOMAR), Patrizia MASSA (PALOMAR), Nicola SERRA (PALOMAR)
- Synopsis
- Leopardi is a child prodigy who grows up under the relentless gaze of his father, in a house that is a library. His mind travels far but his home is a prison. While he reads about everything, the universe remains outside.
  In Europe, the world is changing, revolutions erupt, and Giacomo desperately searches for contact with the outside world. At the age of twenty-four, when he finally leaves Recanati, Italy’s high society opens its doors to him, but our rebel does not fit in. In Florence, he becomes entangled in a love triangle between Antonio Ranieri, the Neapolitan friend with whom he shares a house in the bohemian fashion, and the beautiful Fanny. In the end, he moves to Naples with Ranieri, where
  he becomes immersed in the desperate and vital spectacle of the working-class city. A cholera epidemic breaks out: Giacomo and Ranieri complete the last leg of their long journey, to reach a villa immersed in the countryside at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius.