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Martin Eden was one of President Obama’s favourite movies this year!

Best Movies of 2020 by the NYTimes critics:

Manohla Dargis: “1. ‘Martin Eden’ (Pietro Marcello) In this brilliant take on the Jack London novel of the same title, Luca Marinelli plays an autodidact who abandons the working class to embrace a soul-and-world-destroying bootstraps ideology. “ A.O. Scott: “4. ‘Martin Eden’ (Pietro Marcello) Jack London’s autobiographical novel, published in 1909, has long been more popular in Europe than in the land of London’s birth, and Pietro Marcello’s wild screen version is both an earnest love letter and a brazen act of cultural and imaginative appropriation. Martin (the insanely hot Luca Marinelli) has been transplanted to Naples and given pretty much the whole 20th century as the backdrop for his ardor and ambition. Literature, politics, class struggle, sex — it’s all here in a seething, perpetually surprising epic that obliterates the distinction between realism and fantasy.”

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Martin Eden.

(2019) Pietro Marcello.

Jack London

Martin Eden, Jack London

Martin Eden

directed by Pietro Marcello, 2019