PARTHENOPE
A FILM BY PAOLO SORRENTINO
PRODUCTION
A FREMANTLE FILM PRODUCED BY THE APARTMENT PICTURES,
A FREMANTLE COMPANY, AND PATHÉ IN ASSOCIATION WITH NUMERO 10,
IN ASSOCIATION WITH PIPERFILM AND SAINT LAURENT
PRODUCERS
LORENZO MIELI FOR THE APARTMENT PICTURES,
A FREMANTLE COMPANY,
ANTHONY VACCARELLO FOR SAINT LAURENT,
PAOLO SORRENTINO FOR NUMERO 10 AND
ARDAVAN SAFAEE FOR PATHÉ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: DOUGLAS URBANSKI
CASTING
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,
COSTUME ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ANTHONY VACCARELLO FOR SAINT LAURENT
COSTUME DESIGNER
CARLO POGGIOLI
EDITOR
CRISTIANO TRAVAGLIOLI
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
CARMINE GUARINO
CASTING BY
ANNAMARIA SAMBUCO AND MASSIMO APPOLLONI
MUSIC BY
DANIELE MARCHITELLI
FILM LENGTH
2H15
LANGUAGE
ITALIAN
THE LONG JOURNEY OF PARTHENOPE’S LIFE, FROM HER BIRTH IN 1950 TILL TODAY. A FEMININE EPIC, DEVOID OF HEROISM BUT BRIMMING WITH AN INEXORABLE PASSION FOR FREEDOM, NAPLES, AND THE FACES OF LOVE—ALL THOSE TRUE, POINTLESS, AND UNSPEAKABLE LOVES. THE PERFECT CAPRI SUMMER, THE LIGHTHEARTEDNESS OF YOUTH. WHICH ENDS IN AMBUSH. AND THEN ALL THE OTHERS—THE NEAPOLITANS, MEN AND WOMEN, OBSERVED AND LOVED, DISILLUSIONED AND VITAL, THEIR WAVES OF MELANCHOLY, THEIR TRAGIC IRONIES AND DEJECTED GLANCES. LIFE, BE IT ORDINARY OR MEMORABLE, KNOWS HOW TO BE VERY LONG. THE PASSING OF TIME OFFERS UP A VAST REPERTOIRE OF EMOTIONS. AND THERE IN THE BACKGROUND, SO CLOSE AND SO VERY FAR, IS NAPLES, THIS INEFFABLE CITY THAT BEWITCHES, ENCHANTS, SCREAMS, LAUGHS, AND ALWAYS KNOWS HOW TO HURT YOU.