Pietro Marcello
Nov 10, 2020
3 minutes
Interview by SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN
Illustration by
FRANCESCA PUSCEDDU
Italian director Pietro Marcello’s first-choice career was as a painter. He embraced documentary filmmaking aged 25, crossing into fiction with 2015’s fantasy drama Lost and Beautiful. Class-consciousness permeates his works so it makes sense that he hasadapted‘Martin Eden’, Jack London’s epic, semi-autobiographical novel about the life of an unschooled sailor who becomes a celebrated writer.
Marcello: He’s a child of his time and I needed him. I
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