Parthenope: plot, cast, film images by Paolo Sorrentino

As many suspected, Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino will be in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2024. The only Italian title competing at the 77th edition of the French festival, on the Croisette from 15 to 25 May. Here is everything we know about the new film by the Neapolitan director, “faithful” at Cannes.

Parthenope and the 10th film by Paolo Sorrentino, the sixth presented in competition at the festival After The consequences of love, The family friend, The star. This Must Be The Place, The Great Beauty, Youth. She won the Jury Prize for The celebrity (2008).

It is the long journey of Parthenope’s life, from 1950, when he was born, until today. 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 melancholy drifts, the tragic ironies, the slightly dejected eyes, the impatience, the loss of hope of being able to laugh once again at a distinguished man who trips 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.

Dario Aita, Celeste Dalla Porta (protagonist), 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.

Parthenope was filmed between Capri and Naples (as It was the hand of God). It is an Italy-France co-production. Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, 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.

The director of photography is Daria D’Antonio, the Costume Artistic Director is Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. The costume designer is Carlo Poggioli, the editor is Cristiano Travaglioli. The production designer is Carmine Guarino, the casting is by Annamaria Sambucco and Massimo Appolloni.

The first official photo is the one above. But last autumn the photographer Greg Williams shared the images of the cast on social media (from Gary Oldman to the protagonist Celeste Dalla Porta), taken on set in Capri. They are the magnificent ones you see higher up in this article.