A biopic about Italy's
second-greatest poet after Dante, Giacomo Leopardi, earned warm
applause from the press at the Venice Film Festival Monday.
Mario Martone's Il Giovane Favoloso (The Fabulous Young
Man), starring Elio Germano as the famously pessimistic Romantic
poet and thinker, is one of the favourites to get the Golden
Lion on September 6.
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