It is said that Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, the leading lady of the Italian stage in the late 19th/early 20th century, was an intensely private, introverted woman who once told a journalist that, ...

Painting an attractively-composed picture of Italian theater legend Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), festival favorite Pietro Marcello has for his latest feature swapped an underdog striving to achieve — as ...

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.

For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the legendary stage diva, which just launched in competition at the Venice ...

Duse di Pietro Marcello, in concorso alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia e in arrivo nelle sale il 18 settembre, è una sorta di film on the road. «Perché la Duse non si fermava mai: in tutta la sua vita ...

film profile], one of the five Italian competition entries at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Pietro Marcello pays tribute to and explores the times of one of the most legendary and highly celebrated ...

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 ...