Leonardo DiCaprio: The Protagonist (English Edition) - Зинаида Пронченко

For three decades, the most enigmatic of the true Hollywood greats has revealed as little about himself as possible. We’ve seen DiCaprio on Amalfi beaches with his model girlfriends, business-like appearances at press conferences, and the occasional, unrevealing interview. But the real DiCaprio? Barely a word. Early on in his career, his manager took a piece of advice that seems to have stuck: “Only let them see him in a dark room.” The life on screen is the life. In this book, an acclaimed film critic Zinaida Pronchenko breaks down his masterful body of work, from his first appearance on the big screen in This Boy’s Life, via his collaborations with legendary directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, to his latest Oscar-nominated performance in One Battle After Another. Zinaida Pronchenko is an acclaimed film critic and journalist. Born in St Petersburg in 1981, she studied at Repin Academy of Arts, and has written for Iskusstvo Kino, one of Europe’s oldest cinema magazines. She currently lives in exile in France, where she is editor-in-chief of online magazine Republic, having been designated a “foreign agent” by Vladimir Putin’s regime for criticising the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian-language original of her study of Leonardo DiCaprio was a bestseller until it was banned by Putin’s censors. She has also written a book on the work of the legendary French actor, Alain Delon.