"Martin Eden" is a Drama - Romance movie in which we watch a young man trying to find his place in the world with a job that he will love and a better future. When he meets a young woman of upper class he changes his mind about education and starts his self-education.

I enjoyed this movie because it had a nice plot and contained many important subjects that were presented with a clever way. It also presented the situation of a country in a certain period of time and how it was affected by some external factors. The interpretations of both Luca Marinelli who played as Martin Eden and Jessica Cressy who played as Elena Orsini were very good and the difference on their characters created a nice gap between them on how they see the world along with their perspective about some subjects. Finally, I have to say that "Martin Eden" is a nice drama movie and I recommend you to watch it because I am sure you will learn something from it.

"Betraying his documentarian background, Marcello interlaces vintage footage into the era and altogether, they sustain a holistically consistent visual fidelity (to a point you can very difficult to tell whether those shots are from archives or faithfully recreated). As astonishing as the film looks and as melodiously as it sounds, the kingpin here is Marinelli's central performance. Winning Venice's Best Actor honor, once a vicious whippersnapper in Gabriele Mainetti's THEY CALL ME JEEG (2015),he now can proudly proclaim himself as one of the most prominent leading man in the Italian cinema (new live-action DIABOLIK movie is already in the can),meanwhile we shouldn't forget his bash into Hollywood production as the tender gay immortal warrior in Gina Prince-Bythewood's THE OLD GUARD (2020),currently a sequel is in the pipeline."

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Now it is quite possible that I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when I saw this, but somehow it just misfired. Luca Marinelli is the eponymous character hell bent on improving his lot from a pretty meagre upbringing. His opportunity comes when he rescues the young "Arturo" from some local bullies and when he is invited to his new friend's luxury home for a thank you lunch, meets the boy's sister "Elena" (Jessica Cressy) and it's love at first sight. Determined to elevate himself even more now, he falls in with noted, if slightly dissolute, socialist "Brissenden" (Carlo Cecchi) and whilst his newly found success satisfies his desire for wealth and self-improvement, it also serves to throw some obstacles in his path to true love. It is certainly a very stylish film to enjoy - the mix of colour and monochrome cinematography delivers well, and the score works well to complement the dialogue and the feelings of desire, frustration and maybe even danger as our hero's increasingly successful, politically driven work draws enemies from his peers and the authorities. I suppose, for me, it dwells a little too much on the introspection of a man that i didn't particularly care for; and as ever with films based around one single character - it's hard to stay engaged if that characters isn't working for you. I hesitate to say I found it dull, it isn't dull, but then it isn't really very good either... Perhaps after a second watch, but I cant really think I will bother..