Pathé to handle international sales for Sorrentino’s PARTHENOPE

Pathé is thrilled to reunite with Italian director Paolo Sorrentino and Fremantle to handle international sales for Sorrentino’s PARTHENOPE.

PARTHENOPE stars, in alphabetical order, Dario Aita, Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi, Isabella Ferrari, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Biagio Izzo, Marlon Joubert, Peppe Lanzetta, Nello Mascia, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Daniele Rienzo, Stefania Sandrelli and Alfonso Santagata, and is in Official Selection in Competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival this month.

This marks the fifth collaboration on international sales between Pathe and Sorrentino, which started with This Must the Place in 2011. Pathe also previously handled international sales and co-produced Academy Award winning The Great Beauty, Youth and Loro. 

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime. Parthenope is a no-holds-barred exploration of the relentless pursuit of freedom, the insatiable love for a city with countless faces and myriad forms of love itself.

The film, shot between Naples and Capri, is an Italian-French co-production written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company, and Pathé in association with Numero 10, in association with Saint Laurent and PiperFilm. Producers are Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Paolo Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé. Douglas Urbanski is the Executive Producer. 

Pathé will also release the film in France and Switzerland. Fremantle is handling North American sales.

Pathé & Fremantle are also partnering on Kirill Serebrennikov’s LIMONOV. THE BALLAD, also competing in Official Selection this year.

Pathé will also handle The Count of Monte Cristo, by Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière which will screen Out of Competition.