Participation in the "Dolce Cinema" Italian Film Festival

Culture
Eleonora DUSE
As part of the courses on Italian history and Italian theater (Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, as well as the Grenoble-Padua binational Master’s program) and in conjunction with the “Rencontres du cinéma italien et de l’Isère” film festival, organized by the Dolce Cinema association, students from the LLCER program took part in an educational field trip to the Club cinema, accompanied by their instructor Lisa El Ghaoui, to watch Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s film “Duse” on November 10, 2025.
This film chronicles the final years of Eleonora Duse’s life, in the aftermath of World War I, in an Italy undergoing profound political and social change. An aging actress yet still driven by a radical artistic vision, Duse chose to return to the stage despite illness, financial difficulties, and opposition from those around her. Her complex relationship with Gabriele D’Annunzio, as well as the rising tide of fascism, embodied by the figure of Mussolini, form the backdrop to this journey marked by a quest for freedom and truth through the theater.
Updated on April 21, 2026