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Paolo Sorrentino's film, shot mainly in Capri and Naples, recounts the long life of beautiful Parthenope, from her birth in 1950 to the present day. Locations included: the centre of Naples; via San Carlo; Santa Lucia; lungomare Caracciolo and lungomare di via Partenope, between the beach of the rotonda Diaz and Castel dell'Ovo; Università Federico II campus; the Certosa di San Martino. A closed ten week set that brought Naples €6 million, in location fees to the Municipality, accommodation for cast and crew, compensation for local workers. The production also paid for extra waste collection, for agents to prevent access by the curious, and for the removal of graffiti from the rock of rotonda Diaz and the colonnade of the galleria Umberto.
The set in Naples includes a blue-phosphorescent ship, the same used by the Neapolitan fans to celebrate the 2023 championship, which in a night scene moves towards Borgo Marinari and Castel dell’Ovo; a disinfestation truck used during the cholera epidemic in 1973; a majestic and baroque horse-drawn carriage accompanying a funeral procession; an orange and yellow garbage truck, modelled after those that drove around the city in the 1970s.
In addition to Naples, the film’s locations include Capri, setting for a child’s perfect and carefree summer, featuring the spectacular faraglioni, seen from the giardini di Augusto, and the island coastline, including the beach of the Punta Carena lighthouse in Anacapri. Some alleys of historic Naples were created in Genoa. For the interiors, the director chose a house in Posillipo.
Paolo Sorrentino's film, shot mainly in Capri and Naples, recounts the long life of beautiful Parthenope, from her birth in 1950 to the present day. Locations included: the centre of Naples; via San Carlo; Santa Lucia; lungomare Caracciolo and lungomare di via Partenope, between the beach of the rotonda Diaz and Castel dell'Ovo; Università Federico II campus; the Certosa di San Martino. A closed ten week set that brought Naples €6 million, in location fees to the Municipality, accommodation for cast and crew, compensation for local workers. The production also paid for extra waste collection, for agents to prevent access by the curious, and for the removal of graffiti from the rock of rotonda Diaz and the colonnade of the galleria Umberto.
The set in Naples includes a blue-phosphorescent ship, the same used by the Neapolitan fans to celebrate the 2023 championship, which in a night scene moves towards Borgo Marinari and Castel dell’Ovo; a disinfestation truck used during the cholera epidemic in 1973; a majestic and baroque horse-drawn carriage accompanying a funeral procession; an orange and yellow garbage truck, modelled after those that drove around the city in the 1970s.
In addition to Naples, the film’s locations include Capri, setting for a child’s perfect and carefree summer, featuring the spectacular faraglioni, seen from the giardini di Augusto, and the island coastline, including the beach of the Punta Carena lighthouse in Anacapri. Some alleys of historic Naples were created in Genoa. For the interiors, the director chose a house in Posillipo.
Copyright: photo by GIanni Fiorito
Celeste dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli
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Celeste dalla Porta
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Celeste dalla Porta, Gary Oldman
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Celeste dalla Porta, Paolo Sorrentino
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Gary Oldman
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Paolo Mazzarelli, Celeste dalla Porta
Fremantle, The Apartment Pictures, Saint Laurent, Numero 10, Pathé
Parthenope’s long life-journey, from her birth in 1950, to the present day. "A female epic without heroics, animated by an inexorable passion for freedom, for Naples and the unpredictable faces of love: the true, the useless and those that are unmentionable because they cause pain. And make you start again. The perfect summer of Capri, as a child, wrapped in lightheartedness. And the final ambush. All youth has this in common: brevity. And then the rest, the Neapolitans, who live, observe, love, men and women, disillusioned and vital; their melancholic tendencies, tragic ironies, downcast eyes, impatience and the loss of the hope of being able to laugh once again when a distinguished man stumbles and falls in a city street. Life can be very long, memorable or ordinary. The passing of time offers the whole repertoire of feelings. And there in the background, both near and far, is the indefinable city, Naples, who enchants, screams, laughs and knows how to hurt you".
