“Miss Marx” is a biopic bookended by death, colored by it throughout. It introduces us to socialist activist Eleanor Marx at the funeral of her father Karl, and follows her through to her untimely ...

Venice: Susanna Nicchiarelli's Eleanor Marx biopic initially promises something vibrant and punk rock, before crumbling into bland biopic platitudes. Eleanor, Karl Marx’s youngest daughter and one of ...

Susanna Nicchiarelli’s “Nico, 1988,” about the German singer who performed with the Velvet Underground, made a splash at the Venice Film Festival in 2017 when it took top honors in the cutting-edge ...

VENICE — There’s been a lot of talk about gender parity, feminism and equality at the Venice Film Festival this year, with nearly half the in-competition films directed by women. One of them, “Miss ...

The idea of Eleanor Marx is terribly attractive. Here was a young woman born in Victorian England, holding her own while living among some of the great intellectuals of her time — and ours. All those ...

When I set out to write the life of Eleanor Marx in 2006 some friends worried that yet again I’d been seduced by an unfashionable and overly abstruse biographical subject. Either that, or they just ...

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In the second half of the 19th century, London provided a haven for a number of leftist revolutionaries, French Communards, Russian anarchists and German socialists, including the most influential of ...

Susanna Nicchiarelli's portrait of the ill-fated 19th-century political activist is heavily stylized, but also just plain heavy-going. “Miss Marx” is a biopic bookended by death, colored by it ...

“Miss Marx” chronicles Eleanor Marx’s tragic relationship with political activist and playwright Edward Aveling, portrayed as sneaky and spineless. Yes. I’ve been thinking lately that it will be very ...

“Miss Marx” is a biopic bookended by death, colored by it throughout. It introduces us to socialist activist Eleanor Marx at the funeral of her father Karl, and follows her through to her untimely ...