Gary Oldman says he jumped at chance to be in Cannes drama ‘Parthenope’

CANNES, France -Gary Oldman jumped on the probability to be in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new coming-of-age drama, “Parthenope,” even when it was only a small position, the Oscar-winning actor instructed Reuters.

“I was in anyway. I didn’t care what it would have been either,” mentioned Oldman on Wednesday on the Cannes Film Festival, the place the competitors movie celebrated its premiere.

Oldman has a bit half as melancholic American novelist John Cheever. The title character, a long-haired magnificence performed by newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta, is inexplicably drawn to him on trip.

Parthenope enchants the lads in her life, and the movie follows her from her delivery within the waters of the Bay of Naples to her final day earlier than retiring as a professor of anthropology.

Sorrentino mentioned his personal life expertise gave him the concept of following a personality by means of varied ages.

“Being in my 50s, well, actually more, I was very fascinated with the idea of recounting the melancholies, sorrows, and hopes that revolve around the passing of time,” he mentioned.

“And so from there I came up with the idea of doing a long tale of a woman from when she was born until today,” he added.

Sorrentino famous that the heroine’s improvement additionally coincides with that of the town of Naples.

“Parthenope, in the first part of the film, when she is young, coincides with the city, they are two mysteries,” mentioned Sorrentino, a Cannes veteran who has introduced seven movies to compete for the competition’s high prize, the Palme d’Or.

In the second half, she grows right into a free and spontaneous girl who doesn’t decide, which can be like the town, he added at a news convention within the French Riviera resort city.

Naples is usually referred to as Parthenope in reference to the traditional Greek settlement established there, named after a siren who in accordance with legend drowned herself after failing to bewitch Odysseus and whose physique washed up on the shores of the town.

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Sorrentino gained finest international language movie with 2013’s “The Great Beauty” and was nominated for an Oscar for 2021’s “The Hand of God,” a private household tragedy set in Eighties Naples. That movie first put Dalla Porta, 26, on the director’s radar.

“The casting agents who chose me as an extra called me to do Paolo Sorrentino’s Bulgari commercial,” she instructed Reuters. After a 12 months or two, she mentioned, she began auditioning a number of occasions for the starring position of Parthenope.

For Dalla Porta, the movie not solely is an allegory for Naples, but additionally for her personal life.

“Before we started shooting the film I was still in a youthful, carefree phase of my life, where work was still something of a dream and being an actor somewhat an abstract idea,” she mentioned at a news convention alongside Sorrentino.

“But during the process of making the film, it was as if I had to let go of the little girl in me,” she added.

The movie’s reception was tepid at finest, with The Guardian newspaper calling it a “facile” movie and saying it comes near self-parody. Trade publication IndieWire referred to as it “a superficial meditation on the relationship between youth and beauty.”

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