Paolo Sorrentino is back in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. It will compete with Parthenope, written and directed by the Oscar winner of The Great Beauty and tells the long journey of Parthenope’s life, from 1950, when he was born, until today.
In the cast, in alphabetical order, Dario Aita, Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi, Isabella Ferrari, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Biagio Izzo, Marlon Joubert, Peppe Lanzetta, Nello Mascia, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Daniele Rienzo, Stefania Sandrelli and Alfonso Santagata. An epic of the feminine without heroism, but inhabited by the inexorable passion for freedom, for Naples and the unpredictable faces of love. The real, the useless and the unspeakable, which condemn you to pain. And then they make you start again. The perfect Capri summer, as kids, wrapped in lightheartedness. And the ambush of the end. Youths have this in common: brevity. And then all the others, the Neapolitans, lived, observed, loved, men and women, disillusioned and vital, their melancholic drifts, the tragic ironies, the slightly dejected eyes, the impatience, the loss of hope of being able to laugh again once for a distinguished man who stumbles and falls in a downtown street. Life can be very long, memorable or ordinary. The passage of time gives the whole repertoire of feelings. And there at the end, near and far, this indefinable city, Naples, which bewitches, enchants, screams, laughs and then knows how to hurt you. Filmed between Naples and Capri, it is an Italy-France co-production and is a Fremantle film produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle group company, Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Paolo Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé.
Cannes and Sorrentino have a long relationship spanning six films, including The Great Beauty which later won the Oscar. The director returns to the Croisette nine years after Youth, the film with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel (2015). In 2008 he was awarded the jury with Il Divo, a grotesque portrait of Giulio Andreotti played by Toni Servillo. Sorrentino was also on the jury at Cannes and awarded Marco Bellocchio the honorary Palme d’Or. (HANDLE).
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2024-04-11 15:04:00
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