The scene is worthy of a film: Robert De Niro embracing Paolo Sorrentino, on the set of the new film that the Neapolitan director is shooting in Naples in recent weeks. The actor who is a monument of cinema stayed a few days in Naples, expressing wonder and appreciation during numerous visits to the historic centre, seasoned with inevitable appointments with restaurateurs and pizza makers to taste the specialties of Neapolitan gastronomy. For Sorrentino, De Niro’s visit to the set, a garage in Mergellina – dates back to two weeks ago but the photo was only released by the director now – was a particularly exciting surprise, to the point that, making an exception to his confidentiality, he published on its Instagram site a black and white photo that immortalizes the moment of the embrace between the two, with a lapidary comment: «Visits on the set. Photo by».
The story of the life of Partenope
The new film by the director who does not yet have a definitive title will tell – as stated in the official plot – the life of Partenope which bears the name of his city. «It will be a film that will tell about the light-heartedness of youth and its disappearance, classic beauty and its inexorable changes, useless and impossible loves, stale seductions and dizzying passion, night kisses in Capri, flashes of happiness and persistent pain, fathers real and invented, the end of things, and new beginnings. Along with numerous other characters: men and women observed and loved, their waves of melancholy and disappointment, their impatience and despair, their anguish never to laugh again at a distinguished man who trips and falls on a city street. All this accompanied by the passage of time, this faithful companion. And from Naples, which bewitches and enchants, which cries and laughs, and which knows how to hurt you».
2023-08-11 18:34:52
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