Martin Eden

De Pietro Marcello. Italy/France 2019/ 128 minutes/V.ANG.st FR. Based on the work of Jack London. In Naples, during the 20th century, the initiatory journey of Martin Eden, a young proletarian sailor, individualist in an era crossed by the rise of major political movements. While he conquers love and the world of a beautiful young bourgeois woman thanks to philosophy, literature and culture, he is eaten away by the feeling of having betrayed his origins.