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Paolo Sorrentino on Making His First ‘Feminine Epic’ With Cannes Film ‘Parthenope’ and Directing Gary Oldman: He’s ‘One of the Top Five Actors in the World’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Paolo Sorrentino talks directing Gary Oldman as U.S. Writer John Cheever in 'Parthenope' which he calls his first 'feminine epic.'
Of course, Neapolitans in Italy are also known as “Parthenopeans.” My impression is that, after returning from Rome to Naples to make “The Hand of God,’ your native city drew you further back into its fold. And in thinking about what films I had left to make, starting from “The Hand of God,” I began to choose those that pointed toward the essence of what interests me. Since she is Neapolitan like me, it would have been easy with a film of this type — that digs deep into memory, that seeks the beauty of what we know — there was the risk that the photographic tone could be excessively or dreamy.
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