Miss Marx
a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture
Synopsis
Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.
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Press
“Garai commands attention as a defiant woman who was punkishly far ahead of her time.”
Screen International
"The film looks so rich: the fabrics and the costumes and the interior decoration are Victoriana by way of Etro in a constant autumnal splurge of russets and golds."
“ An audacious retelling"
The Guardian ⭑⭑⭑
"Romola Garai going full Courtney Love makes for one of the film’s livelier tilts against biopic proprieties…
She pulls off a performance here that is reserved, unshowy but absolutely affecting…”
"An explosive performance from star Romola Garai"
Indiewire
"Nicchiarelli’s film feels like its own kind of manifesto: one in which period pieces can speak plainly and freshly to the present”
The Telegraph
"From all the Italian movies we have seen this year in Venice, Miss Marx stands out the most with its progressive dimension"
Telerama
“Richly shot…(Nicchiarelli’s) fourth narrative feature confirms her as an auteur of distinctive thematic and aesthetic preoccupations”
Variety
Festivals
& Awards
Venice Film Festival - Competition
Best Actress Romola Garai - Starlight Cinema Awards Venice
FEDIC AWARD - Venice
Best Soundtrack - Soundtrack Stars Award Venice
San Sebastian Film Festival - Perlak
Reykjavik IFF
Transatlantyk IFF (Poland)
Viennale - Opening Film
Mostra de Sao Paulo
Kolkata IFF
Sonoma International Film Festival
Kustendorf Film and Music Festival
Filming Italy LA
Women Film Festival FEMCINE (Chile)
Belgrade IFF
Italian Film Focus South Africa
Jeonju IFF
D’A Film Festival in Barcelona
Italian Film Festival - Singapore
BILDRAUSCH - FILMFEST BASEL
Chicago Italian Cultural Institute
21st Women's Worlds Film Festival Berlin
Cast & Crew
| Romola Garai | Eleanor Marx |
|---|---|
| Patrick Kennedy | Edward Aveling |
| John Gordon Sinclair | Friedrich Engels |
| Felicity Montagu | Helene Demuth |
| Karina Fernandez | Olive Schreiner |
| Emma Cunniffe | Laura Marx |
| George Arrendell | Paul Lafargue |
| Célestin Ryelandt | Johnny Longuet |
| Oliver Chris | Freddy |
| Alexandra Lewis | Edward’s young wife |
| Georgina Sadler | Gerty |
| Miel Van Hasselt | Willhem Liebknecht |
| Freddy Drabble | Havelock Ellis |
| Philip Gröning | Karl Marx |
| DIRECTOR | Susanna Nicchiarelli |
|---|---|
| SCREENPLAY | Susanna Nicchiarelli |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Crystel Fournier |
| EDITOR | Stefano Cravero |
| SET DESIGNER | Alessandro Vannucci with Igor Gabriel |
| MUSIC | Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo Downtown Boys |
| COSTUME DESIGNER | Massimo Cantini Parrini |
| SOUND | Adriano Di Lorenzo |
| SOUND EDITOR | Marc Bastien |
| SOUND MIXER | Franco Piscopo |
| SPECIAL EFFECTS | Massimiliano Battista |
| PRODUCERS | Marta Donzelli Gregorio Paonessa |
| CO-PRODUCERS | Joseph Rouschop Valérie Bournonville |
| ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | Philippe Logie |
| EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS | Alessio Lazzareschi |
| LINE PRODUCER | Gian Luca Chiaretti |
| DELEGATE PRODUCERS | Serena Alfieri Karim Cham |
| PRODUCTION COMPANY | Vivo Films |
| WITH | Rai Cinema Tarantula |
| IN COPRODUCTION WITH | VOO and Be TV |
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