Overview

• Debuting on September 3 at the Venice Film Festival, Duse introduces a late‑career chapter of Italian stage icon Eleonora Duse through a blend of invention and biography.
• Reviews highlight Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s commanding turn, with several noting that her presence often eclipses other characters and threads.
• Marcello’s approach mixes colorized archival footage with an anachronistic electronic score by Marco Messina, Sacha Ricci and Fabrizio Elvetico.
• The narrative situates Duse’s return to the stage in the post‑WWI years, intersecting with figures such as Gabriele D’Annunzio, Benito Mussolini and Sarah Bernhardt.
• Early reception points to a visually distinctive film with concerns about a one‑note focus and a sidelined mother‑daughter arc, and the title is seeking U.S. distribution.