A24 has dropped an attention-grabbing new trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” forward of the U.S. launch of the Oscar-winning director’s lavish love letter to his native Naples.
The U.S. trailer focuses on the movie’s titular character, a younger girl born in Naples – Neapolitans in Italy are also referred to as “Parthenopeans” – performed by newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta. In his evaluation, Selection critic Siddhant Adlakha praised Dalla Porta for delivering “a beguiling efficiency,” he stated, as “a lady of such beautiful magnificence that folks cease and stare.”
Adlakha praised “Parthenope” as “an beautiful treatise on cinematic magnificence.” However it is usually, as Sorrentino put it in an interview with Selection, a movie about “missed youth” that comes as a follow-up to his autobiographical “The Hand of God” and has elicited comparisons along with his 2013 love letter to Rome, “The Nice Magnificence,” which gained the Academy Award for greatest worldwide function movie.
The “Parthenope” forged additionally consists of Gary Oldman, who performs alcoholic American novelist John Cheever; Luisa Ranieri, who performed the emotionally troubled Aunt Patrizia in “Hand of God”; Italian icon Stefania Sandrelli, who was Bernardo Bertolucci’s muse; and Silvio Orlando, who performed Cardinal Voiello in “The Younger Pope.”
In early Could, forward of its Cannes bow, “Parthenope” was quickly bought by Pathé all world wide, together with to A24 for North America, throughout a 48-hour bidding frenzy. A24 now plans to launch the movie in a nonetheless unspecified date within the first a part of 2025, whereas Pathé has set Jan. 8 because the French launch date.
In Italy, the primary nation the place “Parthenope” has gone into film theaters, it’s been doing gangbuster enterprise on the native field workplace. The movie surpassed the €5 million ($5.3 million) mark lower than two weeks after happening full launch Oct. 24 and now stands at greater than $7.5 million and remains to be going robust. These numbers have made it the nation’s prime native draw – excluding industrial comedies – of the yr thus far. “Parthenope,” which is Sorrentino’s tenth function, might now change into his private greatest by way of native returns.
“Parthenope” is a Fremantle movie co-produced by its The Residence label with France’s Pathé, in affiliation with Sorrentino’s Numero 10 shingle, PiperFilm and Saint Laurent from Anthony Vaccarello and Logical Content material Ventures, with help from Canal+ and the participation of Cine+.
Watch the trailer for “Parthenope” beneath.
