Cannes Film Festival, the Curtain Rises: Italy focuses on Sorrentino
The 77th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury. Streep earned the kermesse first lengthy standing ovation during the opening ceremony. After Juliette Binoche introduced her, the actress shook her head, fanned herself, and danced while the crowd thunderously cheered. “I’m just so grateful that you haven’t gotten sick of my face and you haven’t gotten off the train,” said Streep.
The reception was nearly as rapturous for Gerwig, the first American female filmmaker to serve as president of the Cannes jury that will decide the festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ artistic director, praised her as “the ideal director” for Cannes, given her work across arthouse and studio film and her interest in cinema history. And, Fremaux added, “We very much liked ‘Barbie.’” Gerwig is joined on the jury by Lily Gladstone, star of “Killers of the Flower Moon”; French actor Eva Green; Oscar-nominated Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona; French actor Omar Sy; Lebanese actor and director Nadine Labaki; Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda; Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan; and Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
This year, Italy pins its hopes on “Parthenope,” the new film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, set to premiere on May 21, 2024. Starring Gary Oldman, and featuring Luisa Ranieri, Silvio Orlando, Isabella Ferrari, and Stefania Sandrelli in the cast, “Parthenope” is Neapolitan Great Beauty director Sorrentino’s latest ode to his hometown after 2021’s “The Hand of God.” The movie is produced by Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle’s The Apartment Pictures, Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent Productions, Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé. A24 has already acquired North American rights to the film.
Italy will also be represented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival by Roberto Minervini’s “I Dannati,” competing in the Un Certain Regard category, and by a biopic on the great actor Marcello Mastroianni on the 100th anniversary of his birth, “Marcello Mio,” directed by French director Christophe Honorè, also up for the Golden Palm. The cast includes his former partner Catherine Deneuve and his daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
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The 77th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury. Streep earned the kermesse first lengthy standing ovation during the opening ceremony. After Juliette Binoche introduced her, the actress shook her head, fanned herself, and danced while the crowd thunderously cheered. “I’m just so grateful that you haven’t gotten sick of my face and you haven’t gotten off the train,” said Streep.
The reception was nearly as rapturous for Gerwig, the first American female filmmaker to serve as president of the Cannes jury that will decide the festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ artistic director, praised her as “the ideal director” for Cannes, given her work across arthouse and studio film and her interest in cinema history. And, Fremaux added, “We very much liked ‘Barbie.’” Gerwig is joined on the jury by Lily Gladstone, star of “Killers of the Flower Moon”; French actor Eva Green; Oscar-nominated Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona; French actor Omar Sy; Lebanese actor and director Nadine Labaki; Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda; Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan; and Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
This year, Italy pins its hopes on “Parthenope,” the new film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, set to premiere on May 21, 2024. Starring Gary Oldman, and featuring Luisa Ranieri, Silvio Orlando, Isabella Ferrari, and Stefania Sandrelli in the cast, “Parthenope” is Neapolitan Great Beauty director Sorrentino’s latest ode to his hometown after 2021’s “The Hand of God.” The movie is produced by Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle’s The Apartment Pictures, Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent Productions, Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé. A24 has already acquired North American rights to the film.
Italy will also be represented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival by Roberto Minervini’s “I Dannati,” competing in the Un Certain Regard category, and by a biopic on the great actor Marcello Mastroianni on the 100th anniversary of his birth, “Marcello Mio,” directed by French director Christophe Honorè, also up for the Golden Palm. The cast includes his former partner Catherine Deneuve and his daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
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