Culture: Leopardi by Mario Martone

Giacomo Leopardi is one of the most important and influential poets in Italian literary history. Director Mario Martone’s film, a scrupulously researched and cinematically staged period biopic, gives us the full sweep of the restless and often terribly unhappy events of Leopardi’s life, set within the turbulent context of early 19th-century Italian society, politics and literature. However this is no academic exercise – it is a powerful, moving search for identity and artistic self-expression by a brilliant misfit, memorably played by Elio Germano (My Brother is Only Child, As God Commands).

Name of the event: Leopardi by Mario Martone

Date: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 - Thursday, October 09, 2014

Venue: BFI Southbank, VUE Cinema Islington, London

Address: London

Reserved tickets from: booking essential

Price of ticket from: Booking Online

Type of event: Cinema

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URL: www.icilondon.esteri.it