1980, Naples.

Antonio Pisapia is the star of a local football club at the top of his game.

Antonio Pisapia is a flamboyant nightclub crooner at the height of his fame.

Two men with the same name, living parallel lives. When both find themselves at career crossroads, can either keep their star in the ascendancy?

Paolo Sorretino's (La Grande Bellezza, The Hand of God) melodramatic debut doesn't shy from the knotty vicissitudes of fame and ambition. With his trademark sense of vitality and stylish visual poetry, Sorrentino weaves a considered tale of doomed ego and unfaltering lust for life.

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