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  • 2019
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2019
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary With over 10 million copies of her “Neapolitan Novels” sold in over 50 countries, Elena Ferrante is a global literary sensation. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and HBO recently turned the first book in the quartet, My Brilliant Friend, into a subtitled miniseries hit with more seasons to com...

Directed By: Giacomo Durzi

Written By: Laura Buffoni, Giacomo Durzi

  • 2019
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2019
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 14 m

Ferrante Fever

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary With over 10 million copies of her “Neapolitan Novels” sold in over 50 countries, Elena Ferrante is a global literary sensation. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and HBO recently turned the first book in the quartet, My Brilliant Friend, into a subtitled miniseries hit with more seasons to com...

Directed By: Giacomo Durzi

Written By: Laura Buffoni, Giacomo Durzi

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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63
Feb 25, 2019
In avoiding the “Big Question,” and not really substituting enough of the writing, plotting and characters to give us a clear picture of her talent or make the documentary more compelling, we wonder if the fact that we don’t know who she is might be the secret to her appeal.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
May 17, 2019
Technically this is competent if not remarkable film-making.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 8, 2019
Giacomo Durzi's aptly titled documentary Ferrante Fever delivers a fan-friendly examination of the novelist and her works, and what it lacks in depth it more than makes up for with enthusiasm.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
58
Jul 3, 2019
There are a few problems with Giacomo Durzi’s documentary, Ferrante Fever. The worst is that it’s mundane in the making, a talking heads and clips assemblage with a constantly breathless tone. The second is that betrays the entire idea of putting the work ahead of the literary cult: The film gives us neither the author in person, nor her writing, except in brief clips, read in voice-over by an actor.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 28, 2019
A biography may have been impossible, but in spotlighting a writer who leaves no emotion or thought unexamined, this documentary won’t satisfy devotees hoping for a dive as deep as those their beloved author can produce.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 7, 2019
It’s an anodyne fan flick that casts only furtive glances in Ferrante’s direction, as if the filmmaker, Giacomo Durzi, were a reverential subject who doesn’t dare to make eye contact with the queen.
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Production Company Malìa, Rai Cinema, QMI, Sky Arte, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT), Film Commission Regione Campania
Release Date Mar 8, 2019
Duration 1 h 14 m
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Website https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/077381-000-A/la-prodigieuse-elena-ferrante/
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