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‘Duse’ Review: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Lights Up This Twilight Tale Of A Fading Italian Stage Legend – Venice Film Festival
The film explores Eleonora Duse's struggles with illness, poverty, and political change during Italy's post-WWI era, highlighting her courageous return to the stage despite adversity.
- The film Duse, directed by Pietro Marcello and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival in Italy.
- The film depicts Eleonora Duse's final years between World War I devastation and the rise of fascism, highlighting her illness, poverty, and a reluctant return to the stage.
- Duse combines staged scenes, archival footage, and an electronic score to portray a complex but diminished artist struggling with contradictions and emotional turmoil.
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s performance reflects the film’s uneven and exhausting tone, which critics describe as noisy and chaotic rather than the quiet intimacy the story deserves.
- The film’s limited appeal and lack of U.S. distribution suggest it mainly targets historically minded arthouse audiences, with its cultural specificity and claustrophobic style possibly restricting wider success.
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‘Duse’ Review: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Lights Up This Twilight Tale Of A Fading Italian Stage Legend – Venice Film Festival
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 she still draws a crowd when entertaining the troops during the First World War, and the film’s star, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, rises to that […]
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