2021 · history · drama
The Bad Poet
Directed by Gianluca Jodice1h 46m2021
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
Our read: The Bad Poet (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded history · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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