Autumn has come, it’s getting colder – I want to go for walks less and less. But don’t sit at home all the time! For a change, you can, for example, spend one of the evenings in a cozy cinema. We tell you which films are worth going to.
«Martin Iden»
Italian London
The story of the formation, rise and spiritual exhaustion of the writer, a free autobiography of Jack London, giving out his own tragic ending, is courageously transferred by director Pietro Marcello to his native Italian soil.
He firmly follows the plot of the novel, but for Marcello it is important that “Martin Eden” came out at the dawn of the twentieth century. And he makes his hero go the way of a man and a man of this century.
What London, who died in 1916 from an overdose of morphine (and it is possible that it was a suicide due to depression), could not, but had the right to dream.
XX century
Yes, Marcello seems to be challenging Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Twentieth Century”, a film epic that has absorbed the fates of different social strata and the tragedies of two world wars. But at the same time, he turns to genuine film evidence.
When Martin rushes a girlfriend from the upper circles of the bourgeoisie through his Naples, the city of the poor, are these people – noisy, rude, grubby – are they from the chronicle of the 1960s or actors? And the sailors on the ship where Martin is a fireman, and the ship itself, and the waves with white crests – are they from a documentary film of the 1970s?
Here, feature films and chronicles are so subtly combined that you will not find a place for their joining.
Russian London
Do you remember how Nabokov’s Pnin searched the American book “Martin Eden” and found out that in the USA the cult author of his Russian childhood was completely forgotten?
So, Marcello, it seems, is aware of the special status of the writer in the Russian cultural space: his characters are watching Kira Muratova’s “Knowing the White Light” in the cinema, and Oleg Karavaychuk’s melody clearly comes through behind the scenes.
Genre: drama.
Starring: Luka Marinelli, Marco Leonardi, Carmen Pommella.
PRODUCER
Marcello is a documentary filmmaker with an international name. In The Beautiful and the Lost, he documented from the point of view of a bull; in Herding the Wolf, he followed the romance through letters and brief dates between a prisoner and a transgender woman.
And he made Peleshyan’s Silence, a film portrait of his idol, classic documentary filmmaker Artavazd Peleshyan. Martin Eden is Marcello’s feature film debut.
ALL ABOUT SEX
Three girls… in a big city… Well, you get the idea. Actress Dakota Gorman, 29, made her directorial debut with what the US calls “a manual for millennials going through a quarter-life crisis.”
Genre: comedy, drama.
Starring: Dakota Gorman, Emma Deckers, Natalie Lines.
ANNETT
Leos Carax, the most uncompromising and autistic of French filmmakers, made a film in English. What seemed unthinkable. This is a musical. What is unimaginable for the creator of “Lovers from the New Bridge”. About a stand-up comedian who is mortally jealous of his wife, an opera singer.
Genre: musical, drama.
Starring: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard.