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MARTIN SCORSESE, THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN MASTER

By Camille JUZA, Yal SADAT

ARTE FRANCE - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV / PROD / BROAD

Biography - Post-Production 2023

Martin Scorsese is the unchallenged master of the cinematic quest for Italian-American identity. He has etched the cinematic image of the Sicilian mafiosi and the reality of America with incredible actors like Di Caprio and De Niro.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Biography, Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Camille JUZA, Yal SADAT
- Producer(s)
- Emma LEPERS (HAUT ET COURT), Florence SALA (ARTE FRANCE)
- Synopsis
- From Italian American, his documentary film on his own family in the 1970s, to The Irishman, a lengthy testament-like movie made in 2019, Martin Scorsese has never ceased to question the history of his background. Beyond his recurring themes – gangsterism, redemption, acute masculinity, etc. – the journey of the Italian community in the United States is obsessively present throughout his entire work. Even when he doesn't film the Mob, Scorsese grieves over the ideal of his forebears who came to America to pursue their dreams only to fulfill it through a life of violence. An epic filmmaker turned unexpected chronicler of American society, Scorsese conveys a sense of beautiful, bitter and profound romanticism reminiscent of John Ford when he was filming Irish immigrants in the Wild West.