Leopardi biopic applauded by press in Venice

'The Fabulous Young Man' competing for Golden Lion

(ANSA) - Venice, September 1 - A biopic about Italy's second-greatest poet after Dante, Giacomo Leopardi, earned warm applause from the press at the Venice Film Festival Monday.

Mario Martone's Il Giovane Favoloso (The Fabulous Young Man), starring Elio Germano as the famously pessimistic Romantic poet and thinker, is one of the favourites to get the Golden Lion on September 6.