New Italian movies at the London Film Festival: memorable characters between history and fiction

James Norton attended the last edition of LFF interviewing with Pietro Marcello director of "Martin Eden"

The BFI London Film Festival last month included a showcase of the best recent Italian cinema. The most interesting new feature was directed by Pietro Marcello, whose mysterious essay films mixing archive footage and documentary of colorful social outcasts have a cult following, now making a more mainstream fiction debut with Martin Eden, which transpos…