Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino, in official competition at the Cannes Festival 2024

A new film and a new selection in Official Competition at Cannes 2024 for Paolo Sorrentino. After a detour into the world of series(The Young Pope and The New Pope), the Italian director is back on the big screen with Parthenope, starring, among others, Gary Oldman .

The life of Parthenope from her birth in the 1950s to the present day. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but infatuated with freedom, Naples and love. True love, unspeakable or with no tomorrow, that condemns you to pain but makes you start again. The perfect Capri summer of carefree youth, despite a hopeless horizon.

Around Parthenope, the Neapolitans. Scrutinized, loved, disillusioned and full of life, we follow them in their melancholy drifts, tragic ironies and moments of discouragement. Life can be very long, memorable or ordinary. The passage of time offers the whole repertoire of feelings. And there, in the background, near and far, that indefinable city, Naples, which bewitches, enchants, howls, laughs and can hurt us.

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"Paolo Sorrentino returns with a film shot in Naples. It's the story of a young girl whose problem in life is that she's young and beautiful. She would like to be considered for something other than her beauty. It's also a way of visiting these societies that rub shoulders, in a city like Naples, which is of great visual beauty: high society, low society, the society of professors, that of intellectuals..." explained Thierry Frémaux at the festival press conference on April 11.

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