Duse

Duse (2025) is a historical drama from Pietro Marcello that you can watch online on iFILM. The celebrated Italian stage actress Eleonora Duse walks back into the spotlight past the age of sixty, while a Europe still raw from the First World War reshapes itself around her.

Her finest years seem to be behind her. Her health is failing, and the coarse new politics of the era looks less and less like the world she once performed for. Even so, Duse turns her comeback into a stand: stepping onstage becomes something close to an act of defiance against rising Fascism and against her own exhaustion.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi carries the film stripped of any easy grandeur, a portrait of an artist who refuses to fade quietly. Marcello, known for Martin Eden, shoots it in tactile film grain, threading archival texture through the story of one unbending woman. Stream Duse (2025) online on iFILM.