‘Duse’ Review: Pietro Marcello Unleashes Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi on a Torrid Portrait of a Prima Donna

It is said that Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, the leading lady of the Italian stage in the late 19th/early 20th century, was an intensely private, introverted woman who once told a journalist that, outside the theater “I do not exist.” One wonders, therefore, what she would have made of “Duse,” Pietro Marcello’s worshipful portrait of […]