Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painting an attractively-composed picture of Italian theater legend Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), festival favorite Pietro Marcello ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the curtain rises on Pietro Marcello’s handsome but very culturally specific biopic Duse, the legendary Italian actress ...

Italian auteur Pietro Marcello – whose 2019 film “Martin Eden” made a splash on the international art-house scene – is shooting “Duse,” a movie about legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse.

And indeed: with her comeback, she manages to thrill the masses once again and experiences late moments of fame in the autumn of her career. And when she meets an up-and-coming politician named Benito ...

Below, Bruni Tedeschi and Marcello speak to Variety about why Duse’s free spirit and non-conventional feminism, coupled with her talent, are so relevant today. Pietro, simply put: what drew you to ...

Venice: The "Martin Eden" director returns for a heavily fictionalized portrait of an actress whose life story leaves much to the imagination. It should be noted that Eleanora Duse is a historical ...

As the curtain rises on Pietro Marcello’s handsome but very culturally specific biopic, the legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse has been in retirement since 1909. Such is her enduring fame that ...