UPDATE (28 February 2025): MUBI will handle the international distribution for Paolo Sorrentino’s next film, La grazia. The streaming service, production house and global distributor that recently released The Substance [+lire aussi :
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Paolo Sorrentino has announced his new project, titled La grazia (lit. “The Grace”), the shoot for which will begin in Italy in spring 2025.

Meanwhile, his latest film Parthenope [+lire aussi :
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The star of the new film will be Toni Servillo, who is collaborating with the helmer for the seventh time. They first worked together on One Man Up [+lire aussi :
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The movie, written by Sorrentino himself, will be a love story, but this is all we know about the plot, which is being kept strictly under wraps.

La grazia is being produced by Annamaria Morelli for The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, and by Sorrentino’s own firm, Numero 10, in conjunction with PiperFilm, which will distribute it in Italy, as it is doing at present with Parthenope.