Movies: Mario Martone

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that ...

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The classic opera about falling into and out of love, friendship, and loss. Mimi and the poet Rudolfo, the painter Marcello and Musetta are the lovers; the musician Schaunard and philosopher Colline round out the set of friends living life rather clo...

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned...

Allen Ginsberg is reading his poetry in the Trianon movie theater, which is a historical red light theater in Naples. At the same time, the hardcore film, Tutta una vita, is being projected. A member of the audience in his sixties drops off to sleep....

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives h...

Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna....

"Caravaggio, l'ultimo tempo" is a 2004 documentary directed by Mario Martone and based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio....

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre c...

The director resumes at the theater Laura Berti who reads the most beautiful lyrics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, giving with his hands, voice and words, rhythm and unity to the work....

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago....

Clearly inspired by the then-mayor of Naples Antonio Bassolino, with references to the problems of the city and its hopes of a renaissance, the works of Francesca Spada, the crow of Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows. Segment of "I vesuviani" (199...

Chronicle about Lifetime Achievement Award given to the Italian director Mario Martone at the Med Film Festival in Rome. The souvenirs by the actress Iaia Forte, critic comment by Giona Nazzaro and the director Mario Martone that makes considerations...

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The film shot signed by Mario Martone of the Ten Commandments, the legendary Decalogue by Raffaele Viviani, in the version staged by Martone himself in Naples, in the popular district overlooking casa Viviani. The director said: "Viviani's theater is...

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake....