Fondation Opale
Route de Crans 1
1978 Lens
Eleonora Duse’s legendary career seems to be drawing to a close, but in the turbulent times between the Great War and the rise of fascism, La Divina feels a call stronger than any sense of resignation and returns to where her life began: the stage.
It is not merely the call of the theatre that drives her, but a profound urgency: the need to assert herself in an inexorably changing world that threatens to strip her of everything, including the independence she has earned through a lifetime of work. Unexpected financial setbacks force her to make a choice, and so, once again, Eleonora chooses the theatre as her sole space of truth and resistance.
With her art as her sole weapon, she defies time and disillusionment, transforming every word and every gesture into a revolutionary act. But the price of beauty in the face of the brutality of power and history is high: her loved ones seem to be drifting away, and her health is deteriorating. Yet Eleonora will face her final journey, proving that one may renounce life itself, but never one’s own nature.
Film in Italian, with French subtitles.
