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.
The film is an epic of the feminine without heroism, but inhabited by the inexorable passion for freedom, for Naples and the unpredictable faces of love. 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. He was also on the jury at Cannes and awarded Marco Bellocchio the honorary Palme d'Or. (HANDLE) The Great Beauty is an Italy-France co-production and is a Fremantle film produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Paolo Sor Brentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé.