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Mario Martone, one of Italy's most imaginative experimental theater innovators, made a striking cinematic debut with this subtle, dreamlike work about a bizarre mathematical genius who committed suicide in Naples in 1959. On the evening of May Day, 1959, a drunkard is stopped by police. Presumed to be a vagrant, he is in fact Renato Caccioppolli, an esteemed mathematics professor at Naples University, grandson of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and a Communist. Thus begins the last week of the professor's life. It is a life told as a kind of collage, with drinking bouts and existential torments puncturing the memories of a man who experienced some of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. The film's views of a vanished Naples add a sensuous visual pleasure to Martone's rigorous portrait of not only a man, but an entire culture.
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