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
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