Pietro Marcello | Italy | 2019 | 129m

Italian with English subtitles

Screening - Friday, October 23 until end of day Thursday, November 5

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.

"The sort of movie that restores your faith in an art form-or, at the very least, in the craft of turning a bygone era's paragraphs on a page into an urgent mix of sound and vision." -David Fear, Rolling Stone

"The film is a masterpiece... see it any way you can." -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture

Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival

Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival

Costs $9 (USD).

A ticket provides a five day pass to watch Martin Eden

Watching the film here supports Kino Lorber and Carbon Arc Cinema