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Icons, 2025

Duse

엘레오노라 두세

Director Pietro MARCELLO

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Returning once again to the 1920s, Pietro Marcello’s new film tells the story of a legendary stage actress known as the maestro. After the war, Eleonora Duse, bankrupt, collapses and stands on the threshold of death. Yet miraculously, she recovers and takes on a new challenge—acting. While the film depicts the latter stage of her life, it maintains a distance from the beauty of decline; in this sense, Marcello’s classicism differs from that of Visconti or Mizoguchi. As seen through Duse, who trusts Mussolini’s promises, Marcello’s characters are sometimes foolish. What elevates such people is their passion for art. Their longing for the future and the will power to brave even death helps them to follow their path. Whereas the protagonists in Marcello’s earlier works dreamt of literature and music, Duse yearns for theater, an art that has been pushed aside and nearly forgotten because of cinema. Bruni Tedeschi delivers a peak performance, paying tribute to the real-life figure, right up to her trembling final lines.

Programme note by LEE Yong Cheol

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Duse 1 — Erika Kuenka

Screenings3

Sun, 09/21

19:3021:36

Busan Community Media Center Open Hall

323KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Tue, 09/23

20:0022:31

Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque

415Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Wed, 09/24

16:0018:31

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 1

483Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Pietro MARCELLO
Country/Region: Italy, France
Year: 2025
Length: 126min
Section: Icons
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Italian
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Pietro MARCELLO

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Director: Pietro MARCELLO
Cast: Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Fanni WROCHNA, Noémie MERLANT
Screenplay: Letizia RUSSO, Guido SILEI, Pietro MARCELLO
Cinematography: Marco GRAZIAPLENA
Editing: Fabrizio FEDERICO, Cristiano TRAVAGLIOLI
Sound: Denny DE ANGELIS
Music: Marco MESSINA, Sacha RICCI, Fabrizio ELVETICO
Production company: Palomar (a Mediawan company), Avventurosa, Rai Cinema, Piperfilm, Ad Vitam Films
World sales: The Match Factory

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