It will be a true passing of the baton between Hollywood celebrities, what this weekend will take place in the heart most true of the ancient Partenope, including John Turturro and Julia Roberts. The star of "Pretty Woman" in fact, will be in town Sunday through Tuesday for two to three days of filming the movie "Eat, Pray, Love 'epic co-produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures (which has already been inserted between the outputs of 2011).

The film is directed by Ryan Murphy, who has also developed the script from the autobiographical novel by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, pray, love. A woman seeks happiness ", published in Italy by Rizzoli. Among the producers of the film are the same Roberts and Brad Pitt, the copyright holder of the book. Also starring Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins and Luke McConaughey.

After tomorrow the star of the film will shoot some scenes in via the Courts, wandering the streets before entering the Pio Monte della Misericordia, where Turturro shot the other day a scene from his film on the Neapolitan song, provisionally "Passion", the protagonist Fausto Cigliano. Yesterday the crew wraps up yet, but outside the chapel which contains the famous Caravaggio painting dedicated to the "Seven Works of Mercy."

From the sound of the Neapolitan song, declined in its most classic or not, you will pass to the atmosphere and even painful introspective novel of Gilbert, centered on the issue of a woman in existential crisis, who decides to tackle a twelve-month journey around the world, to find herself, so, know Italy, where he learned the art of pleasure and make new friends, India, where it attains the grace meditating along with a plumber from New Zealand certainly poetic talent, finally, Indonesia , where a toothless shaman of uncertain age are taught to heal from the sadness and loneliness, then to smile and love again.

After filming Roman lasted two weeks, Julia Roberts arrives in Naples in the company of silverware, which in the film plays a professor of Italian, companion and guide of the female protagonist of the riches and pleasures of Partenope: pleasures of a spiritual nature, but also well more materials. Thus, for the set Neapolitan were chosen two ideal places to feed, respectively, the soul and body.

So, while it is likely that within the Pio Monte della Misericordia, the character of Roberts finds comfort and inspiration intimate reflections between the walls of the church erected in the seventeenth century and in front of Caravaggio's masterpiece, on the other hand, the Women will also discover the pleasures of Neapolitan cuisine, starting of course pizza.

Monday, in fact, for the second day of filming in the city, the set will move inside the historic Hollywood pizzeria "Da Michele, which the family manages to Conduct Fork since 1870. So, in keeping with the autobiographical character that Gilbert has outlined in his novel, the American diva increase from spaghetti alla carbonara tasted on the set to a Roman dish pizza and seafood of the most authentic Neapolitan tradition.