After directing a series of award-winning short films throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Jodice directed the 2014 documentary
Searching for the Great Beauty, about the
Paolo Sorrentino film
The Great Beauty. Jodice's 2020 feature film debut,
The Bad Poet, dramatized the relationship between
Gabriele D'Annunzio and
Benito Mussolini through the eyes of
Giovanni Comini, a young federal secretary in
Fascist Italy. For
The Bad Poet, Jodice was nominated in the Best New Director category at the 2021
Nastro d'Argento and
2022 David di Donatello award ceremonies.
The Flood, Jodice's film about
Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette at the end of their reign, was selected to open the
77th Locarno Film Festival in August 2024. == Filmography ==