Gary Oldman jumped at the opportunity to work on Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's new coming-of-age drama “Parthenope,” even if it was just for a small role, the Oscar-winning actor told Reuters.
“I was in anyway. I also didn’t care what it would be like,” said Oldman, on Wednesday (22), at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film celebrated its premiere.
Oldman has a small role as a melancholic American novelist named John Cheever. The film's namesake character, a long-haired beauty played by newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta, is inexplicably attracted to him during her vacation.
Parthenope charms the men in her life and the film follows her from her birth in the waters of the Bay of Naples to her last day before retiring as an anthropology professor.
Sorrentino said his own life experience gave him the idea of following a character through several different ages.
“Being 50 years old, well, actually more, I was very fascinated with the idea of telling melancholy, pain and hope that evolve with the passage of time,” he said.
According to Sorrentino, the heroine's development also coincides with that of the city of Naples.
“Parthenope, in the first part of the film, when it is young, coincides with the city, they are two mysteries”, said the Cannes veteran, who has already taken seven films to compete for the festival's main prize, the Palme d'Or.
In the second part, she grows up and becomes a free and spontaneous woman who doesn't judge anyone, as does the city, she added, at a press conference in the city on the French Riviera.
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