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Enea, A Tragic Roman Tale

TORONTO – Pietro Castellitto’s “Enea” could be interpreted as a subversive allusion to Virgil’s poem The Aeneid, but set in modern day Rome. The film’s title character (Enea) is a young man journeying through the city’s decadent underworld in a quest to establish himself, but begins his story where Virgil’s tale ends. Contrasting Virgil’s Aeneas who rose from the ashes of Troy, Castellitto’s Enea finds himself eroding within a world that seems doomed to collapse.