The films of Pietro Marcello
Pietro Marcello est un réalisateur italien né en 1976 à Caserte. Après des études en peinture à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Naples, il se tourne vers le cinéma en 2000, d'abord comme assistant-réalisateur. Après quelques courts métrages documentaires, il tourne Il passaggio della linea (2007) sur les trains express italiens, présenté à la Mostra de Venise et qui le révèle comme auteur. En 2009, il réalise La bocca del lupo, qui remporte une série de prix dont le grand prix du Festival du film de Turin. En 2011, il présente deux documentaires à la Mostra de Venise : Il silenzio di Pelešjan, sur le réalisateur d'avant garde Artavazd Pelechian, et Marco Bellocchio, Venezia 2011, un bref portrait du réalisateur Marco Bellocchio. En 2015, Pietro Marcello présente le long métrage Bella e perduta aux festivals de Locarno et de Toronto. En 2019, il réalise son premier film de fiction, un projet qu'il mène depuis longtemps, Martin Eden, basé sur le roman de Jack London.
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La Bocca del Lupo
Enzo has spent half his life in prison behind bars. The Sicilian gangster, a repeat offender, has nevertheless found love there as well as a form of salvation through poetry. In snatches, Pietro Marcello paints his portrait, like so many scraps of a broken life, along with a portrait of the underclass from Genoa’s Croce Bianca, Via Prè and Sottoripa neighbourhoods with their labyrinths of cut-t...
Il passaggio della linea
A nocturnal tale, a trip to the heart of Italy on the night trains that carry the poor and the immigrants who travel the length of the peninsula from south to north and vice versa. The journeys, stations, landscapes, industries, architecture, the faces and the dialects, all come together to offer a snapshot of the country.
La Bocca del Lupo
Enzo has spent half his life in prison behind bars. The Sicilian gangster, a repeat offender, has nevertheless found love there as well as a form of salvation through poetry. In snatches, Pietro Marcello paints his portrait, like so many scraps of a broken life, along with a portrait of the underclass from Genoa’s Croce Bianca, Via Prè and Sottoripa neighbourhoods with their labyrinths of cut-t...
Il passaggio della linea
A nocturnal tale, a trip to the heart of Italy on the night trains that carry the poor and the immigrants who travel the length of the peninsula from south to north and vice versa. The journeys, stations, landscapes, industries, architecture, the faces and the dialects, all come together to offer a snapshot of the country.
