BLACK PARTHENOPE
synopsis
Naples, Nowadays. In a city where life unfolds amidst a ceaseless clamor of people, beeping scooters, color and beauty, there is a place where silence and history cloak the visitors transporting their souls in a 3000 year-old journey: the vast underground city, where huge spaces alternate with impenetrable, claustrophobic dark caves, galleries and alleys. Cécile Bonnet, young offspring of a family of French entrepreneurs, arrives in town for her fist big assignment: to oversee the construction of a series of mega-car parks in the tufa caverns. Helping Cécile is Yanis, her project manager/casual lover, Greta, her father's attractive assistant, and Neapolitan technical consultant Gianni. A series of unexpected events, violent deaths, involving mysterious presences brings Cécile and her team trapped forty meters below surface, with no means to communicate with the outside world. With their very life at stake they sets off on a desperate journey to find a way out of that surreal world.
original title: | Black Parthenope |
country: | Italy, Spain |
year: | 2021 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Alessandro Giglio |
film run: | 81' |
release date: | IT 2/06/2022 |
screenplay: | Alessandro Giglio, Ivan Specchio |
cast: | Marta Gastini, Jenna Thiam, Nicola Nocella, Giorgio Pinto, Giovanni Esposito, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Maziar Firouzi |
cinematography by: | Federico Annicchiarico |
art director: | Antonella Di Martino |
costumes designer: | Salvatore Salzano |
music: | Luca De Gregorio, Massimiliano Abbatangelo, Matteo Spedicati, Isa Rojas, Angelo Bibita |
producer: | Silvana Leonardi, Massimo Abbatangelo, Davide Squillace |
associate producer: | Nicola Grispello |
production: | Wam |
backing: | Direzione generale Cinema e audiovisivo del Ministero della Cultura DGCA - MIC, Think MGMT |