Today, Hollywood Authentic magazine has published exclusive first-look pictures, taken by Greg Williams, on-set of Academy Award®-winning director Paolo Sorrentino's new film.
Still untitled, the film explores the life of Parthenope from her birth in 1950 to today, who, in Paolo Sorrentino’s own words, bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth. Her long life embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth’s lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, nighttime kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings, and new beginnings. Together with a host of other characters: men and women observed and loved, their waves of melancholy and disappointment, their impatience and despair, their anguish at never again laughing at an elegant man who trips and falls on a city street. All of this is accompanied by the passage of time, that most faithful of boyfriends. And by Naples, who charms and enchants, who shouts and laughs, and who knows just how to hurt you.
Starring, 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.
The film, shot between Naples and Capri, is an Italian-French co-production written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, a Fremantle film produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Paolo Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé. Douglas Urbanski is the Executive Producer.
The cinematographer is Daria D’antonio, Costume Artistic Director is Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Costume Designer is Carlo Poggioli, Editor is Cristiano Travaglioli, Production designer is Carmine Guarino, Casting by Annamaria Sambucco and Massimo Appolloni.
Sales are handled by UTA and Fremantle.
