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Il Giovane Favoloso
''Leopardi'' ( it, Il giovane favoloso) is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot The film tells the story of the short life of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. He was a noble, born in Recanati, and soon began to study Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and English in the rich library of his palace that his father built. Giacomo, however, possessing an inquisitive, restless spirit, would like to travel abroad to widen his views and enrich his knowledge, as was usual for European landed gentry in the 19th century, though this desire is at odds with his parents (even if his father had a sensibility akin to his, he is too bound by the social conventions and the expectations tied to his role as ' Pater Familias'; his mother, on the other hand, is too busy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Martone
Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film '' L'amore molesto'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Noi credevamo'' competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. He was also the stage director for Lorenzo Ferrero's opera '' Charlotte Corday'', which was premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 21 February 1989. His 2014 film ''Leopardi'' has been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Filmography * '' Perfidi incanti'' (1985) * '' Nella città barocca'' (1985) * '' Morte di un matematico napoletano'' (1992) * '' Rasoi'' (1993) * '' Miracoli, storie per corti'' (1994) * '' L'unico paese al mondo'' (1994) * '' L'amore molesto'' (1995) * ''Una storia Saharawi'' (1996) * '' I vesuviani'' (1997) * '' La terra trema'' (1998) * '' Teatro di guerra'' (1998) * ''Lulu'' (2001) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Existence
The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, morality, conflict, and death. This is a very broad topic that has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those of anthropology, art, biology, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religion. As a literary term, "human condition" is typically used in the context of ambiguous subjects, such as the meaning of life or moral concerns. Some perspectives Each major religion has definitive beliefs regarding the human condition. For example, Buddhism teaches that existence is a perpetual cycle of suffering, death, and rebirth from which humans can be liberated via the Noble Eightfold Path. Meanwhile, many Christians believe that humans are born in a sinful condition and are doomed in the afterlife unless they receive salvation through Jesus Christ. Philosophers have provided many perspecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iaia Forte
Iaia Forte (born 16 March 1962) is an Italian actress. She is probably best known for the Maurizio Nichetti's comedy film '' Luna e l'altra'', for which she won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress, a Globo d'oro for Best Actress and she was nominated for David di Donatello in the same category. Other films she appeared in include '' Paz!'' (for which she was nominated for Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress), '' Il seme della discordia'', '' Teatro di guerra'', '' Tre mogli'' and ''The Great Beauty ''The Great Beauty'' ( it, La grande bellezza ) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in com ...''. References External links * 1962 births Living people Italian film actresses Nastro d'Argento winners Ciak d'oro winners Italian stage actresses {{italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Graziosi
Paolo Graziosi (25 January 1940 – 1 February 2022) was an Italian stage and film actor. Biography Born in Rimini, Graziosi was rejected for the admission exams at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Silvio D'Amico in 1961. He then enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In theater, after a period of apprenticeship, he had his first break in 1965 with the role of Mercutio in a famous version of '' Romeo and Juliet'' directed by Franco Zeffirelli. In cinema, in which he had made his debut the 1962 drama film ''Gli arcangeli'', his breakout role was an accountant named Carlo in '' China is Near'' by Marco Bellocchio (who had been his classmate in the Centro Sperimentale and that had previously directed him in the 1962 short film ''Ginepro fatto uomo''). From then on, Graziosi continued appearing in films and television series, usually in secondary roles, but from seventies he focused his activities on stage, co-founding with Carlo Cecchi "GranTeatro", a company mainly act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Giordani
Pietro Giordani (January 1, 1774 – September 2, 1848) was an Italian writer, classical literary scholar, and a close friend of, and influence on, Giacomo Leopardi. Biography Born in Piacenza, Giordani originally set out to become a monk. But after having entered into the Benedictine convent of Saint Sixtus at Piacenza in 1797, he eventually changed his mind and abandoned the clerical vocation in favor of his only real love, literature. He looked with extreme favor upon Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic regime in Italy and, in 1807, he wrote a ''Panegyric on the Sacred Majesty of Napoleon''. The following year he obtained the post of proto-secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna which, however, he had to abandon in 1815: with the beginning of the Restoration he became highly suspect for his liberal, republican ideals. In 1816, he began his legendary epistolary exchange with Giacomo Leopardi to whom he eventually paid a visit in 1818, accompanying him, during his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerio Binasco
Valerio Binasco (born 20 June 1964) is an Italian actor, stage director, and playwright. Life and career Born in Paderna, Binasco graduated at the drama school of the Stabile di Genova, where he made his professional debut in 1987. He won two Ubu Awards, in 1999 for playing Hamlet in an adaptation directed by Carlo Cecchi and in 2004 for playing Polynices in a stage adaptation of ''Oedipus at Colonus'' directed by Mario Martone. Also active in films, in 2016 Binasco was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his performance in ''Alaska''. Selected filmography * ''This Is Not Paradise'' (2000) * '' Domenica'' (2001) * '' Two Friends'' (2002) * '' Working Slowly (Radio Alice)'' (2004) * ''The Beast in the Heart'' (2005) * ''Texas'' (2005) * ''Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight'' (2006) * '' A Perfect Day'' (2008) * ''Blood of the Losers'' (2008) * ''Noi credevamo'' (2010) * ''Leopardi'' (2014) * ''Alaska'' (2015) * ''Lord of the Ants ''Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monaldo Leopardi
Count Monaldo Leopardi (Recanati, 16 August 1776 – Recanati, 30 April 1847) was an Italian philosopher, nobleman, politician and writer, notable as one of the main Italian intellectuals of the counter-revolution. His son Giacomo Leopardi was a poet and thinker with completely opposite views, which were probably the root cause of their discord. Biography Monaldo Leopardi was born in Recanati on the 16th of August 1776. He lost his father before he was five years old, and spent the years of his childhood in the Palazzo Leopardi, with his mother, his brother and sister, and his great-uncle. His tutor, Father José Matías de Torres, was an exiled Jesuit from Veracruz, Mexico. As a child, Monaldo spent several months in Pesaro at the home of his grandmother, Francesca, who years later came to stay with him in his palace in Recanati. At the age of eighteen he assumed, as head of the family, the complete management of the whole family property. In 1797 Monaldo married a capable wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Popolizio
Massimo Popolizio (born 4 July 1961) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Massimo Popolizio studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' and ''Towards Peer Gynt'' inspired by ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen, and again in 2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play ''The Venetian Twins''. In 2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the title role of the stage work ''John Gabriel Borkman'', with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in the TV show '' Una grande famiglia''. Popolizio lent his voice for the Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the '' Harry Potter'' films, to To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ranieri
Antonio Ranieri (8 September 1806 – 4 January 1888) was an Italian writer, patriot and politician, better known for his juvenile intimate friendship with Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837), the most renowned 19th-century Italian poet. Biography First years First-born of Francesco Ranieri, a State official, and of Maria Luisa Conzo, Antonio Ranieri was born in Naples ( Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) on 8 September 1806. A liberal since adolescence, and suspected of belonging to the Carbonari, Antonio Ranieri was forced to leave Naples in 1827 and settle in Florence ( Grand Duchy of Tuscany), a city open to political refugees, the following year. In Florence he met important intellectuals and writers such as Pietro Giordani, Alessandro Poerio, Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, Pietro Colletta, Giuseppe Ricciardi and, above all, he met Giacomo Leopardi for the first time. In Bologna (Papal States), he was briefly a pupil of the famed hyperpolyglot Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Riondino
Michele Riondino (born 14 March 1979) is an Italian actor. Born in Taranto, Riondino enrolled at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2000. In 2006, he acted in ''The Black Arrow'', a TV series broadcast by Canale 5, directed by Fabrizio Costa. His acting breakthrough came in 2008, with ''The Past Is a Foreign Land'', for which he was awarded best actor at the Rome Film Festival and at the Miami International Film Festival. In 2010, Riondino was appointed EFP Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival and received the Guglielmo Biraghi Award at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. He has been playing the title character in the RAI TV-series ''The Young Montalbano'' since 2012. Selected filmography * ''The Past Is a Foreign Land'' (2008) * ''Fort Apache Napoli'' (2009) * ''Small Sea'' (2009) * '' Ten Winters'' (2009) * ''Noi credevamo'' (2010) * ''Steel'' (2012) * ''The Young Montalbano'' (2012) * ''Dormant Beauty'' (2012) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Mouglalis
Anna Mouglalis ( el, Άννα Μουγλάλη; born 26 April 1978) is a French actress and model. She is known for being a house ambassador for Chanel since 2002, and for portraying the fashion designer Coco Chanel in the 2009 film '' Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky'', and actress Paula Maxa in the 2018 film '' The Most Assassinated Woman in the World''. Life and career Mouglalis was born in Fréjus,France Inter: ''Anna Mouglalis''ArchivShort biography on the occasion of her participation in the radio programme ''Nonabstant'' 23 /11/ 2009. Var, to a French mother and a Greek father. She spent her youth in the Var ''département'', before moving back to Nantes with her family. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a physical therapist. Until 2001 Mouglalis studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris (CNSAD) under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. In addition to her native French, she speaks fluent English, Italian, and Spanish, and understands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Ragonese
Isabella Ragonese (born 19 May 1981) is an Italian actress. She studied acting at the Teatès School in Palermo, under director Michele Perriera. During her studies, she wrote, directed and starred in several adaptations of his plays. In 1998 she won the first prize at INDA (National Institute for Ancient Drama), with a short essay on the figure of Hecuba. She graduated in 2000 with a diploma in acting. She starred in her first film '' Nuovomondo'' in 2006, directed by Emanuele Crialese. She is engaged to Samuel Umberto Romano, lead singer of the group Subsonica. Filmography Films Television Awards * Nastro d'Argento for Best supporting Actress 2010: ''La nostra vita'' & '' Due vite per caso'' (ex-aequo). * Shooting Stars Award 2012: Ragonese received this award at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, an annual acting award for up-and-coming actors by European Film Promotion European Film Promotion (EFP) is an international promotion organis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
