Italy at Cannes with Sorrentino, Minervini and Mastroianni

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 11 - Italy will be represented at this year's Cannes Film Festival by Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope, competing for the Palme d'Or, Roberto Minervini's I Dannati, up for Un Certain Regard, and biopic on great actor Marcello Mastroianni on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Marcello Mio, by French director Christophe Honorè, also up for the Golden Palm, organisers said Thursday.
    Partenope is Neapolitan Great Beauty director Sorrentino's latest hymn to his home city after 2021's The Hand of God.
    Starring Gary Oldman and with Luisa Ranieri, Silvio Orlando, Isabella Ferrari, Stefania Sandrelli in the cast, it will have its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May 2024), Delegate General Thierry Fremaux said.
    It is the only Italian directed film up for the top prize.
    Minervini's film, whose English title is The Damned, will also have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard category.
    And also in the race for the Palme d'Or, although directed by French director Honorè, there is the centenary year Marcello Mio, a film that is a declared homage to the great actor Mastroianni with great French actress and his former partner Catherine Deneuve and his daughter by her Chiara Mastroianni in the cast.
    photo: Sorrentino (ANSA).