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Leopardi is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Mario Martone with Anna Mouglalis

Leopardi (2014)

Il giovane favoloso

Leopardi
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Length 2h17
Directed by
OriginItalie
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating67% 3.3980553.3980553.3980553.3980553.398055

Leopardi (Italian: Il giovane favoloso) is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Synopsis

The film tells the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. A noble, his birth's in Recanati, and soon Giacomo learns 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 know to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century. Still this desire of his lies at odds with his parents (his father, while possessing a sensibility akin to his, 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 way to remedy this problem. In 1820s, Leopardi can finally leave the native Recanati, and travels to Rome and Florence where, however, his high expectations of intellectual rewards and public recognition are frustrated. Suffering from repeated instances of unrequited love: chiefly that he felt towards the Countess Fanny Targioni Tozzetti, contribute to Leopardi's negative view of life and human experience. Finally he moves to Naples, where a physical decadence led him to death.

Actors

Anna Mouglalis

(Fanny Targioni-Tozzetti)
Isabella Ragonese

(Paolina Leopardi)
Elio Germano

(Giacomo Leopardi)
Michele Riondino

(Antonio Ranieri)
Massimo Popolizio

(Monaldo Leopardi)
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