Leopardi (2014) ( Il giovane favoloso )

Leopardi (2014) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Il giovane favoloso
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( DTS 5.1 )
Italian ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
141 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Mario Martone

Written By:
Mario Martone
Ippolita Di Majo

Actors:
Elio Germano ..... Giacomo Leopardi
Michele Riondino ..... Antonio Ranieri
Massimo Popolizio ..... Monaldo Leopardi
Anna Mouglalis ..... Fanny Targioni-Tozzetti
Valerio Binasco ..... Pietro Giordani
Paolo Graziosi ..... Carlo Antici
Iaia Forte ..... Signora Rosa
Sandro Lombardi ..... Don Vincenzo
Raffaella Giordano ..... Adelaide Antici Leopardi
Edoardo Natoli ..... Carlo Leopardi
Federica De Cola ..... Paolina Ranieri
Isabella Ragonese ..... Paolina Leopardi
Giovanni Ludeno ..... Pasquale Ignarra
Giorgia Salari ..... Maddalena Pelzet
Gloria Ghergo ..... Teresa Fattorini

Synopsis:

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

The film tells the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. He was a noble, His birth's in Recanati, and soon began to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built. Giacomo, however, possessing an inquisitive, restless spirit, would like to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century, though this desire is at odds with his parents (even if his father had a sensibility akin to his, he is too bound by the social conventions and the expectations tied to his role as 'Pater Familias'; his mother, on the other hand, is too busy shoring up the household declining fortunes to even care about intellectual aspirations). So the poet begins to write his first works, reflecting about human condition, coming to the conclusion that unhappiness is a costant factor of human existence, and that in life there is no remedy for this problem. In 1820s, Leopardi can finally leave the native Recanati, and begin to travel to Rome and Florence where, however, his high expectations of intellectual rewards and public recognition are not achieved. He suffered from repeated instances of unrequited love: that he chiefly felt towards the Countess Fanny Targioni Tozzetti, contributing to Leopardi's negative view of life and human experience. He finally moves to Naples, where a physical decadence led him to death.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 06 January, 2016.