Shipwrecks on timeless lands. Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” between aesthetic hybridizations, mnemonic fragmentations and identity encroachments
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7516Keywords:
Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden, memory, archive, anachronismAbstract
Martin Eden (2019) is Pietro Marcello’s latest film, a free adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel of the same name. The hybridization of languages, especially between fiction and non-fiction, and the use of archival footage – director’s stylistic code – reaffirm the originality and visionary power of Marcello’s cinema. Transporting the protagonist of London from the 1909 Oakland into a multi-temporal Naples, and assigning to an extraordinary Luca Marinelli the task of taking a dense, political and poetic journey throughout the “short century”, this film reflects on the ways in which images reconfigure memory, both the public memory, the one of an entire country, and the private and intimate memory of migrant subjects who wander among utopias and identity dispersions.
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