Luce di Procida, from the Italian: the light of Procida.
Thirty minutes from Naples there is a volcanic island that behaves less like a place than like a character. Procida has its own temperament and its own hours. Its houses run through every pastel there is, they say, so a fisherman could find his own door from the water. Writers and drifters have been arriving here for a century to get away from somewhere else, and staying.
Everything on the island turns towards the sea. The boats, the kitchens, the long afternoons.
The Talented Mr Ripley was filmed here. Perhaps Tom Ripley was never really after Dickie Greenleaf's identity, with its money and its ease. Perhaps what he wanted was the island itself, and when he held on to Marge he was holding on to the light coming off it.
A love letter to Procida.
Luce di Procida, from the Italian: the light of Procida.
Thirty minutes from Naples there is a volcanic island that behaves less like a place than like a character. Procida has its own temperament and its own hours. Its houses run through every pastel there is, they say, so a fisherman could find his own door from the water. Writers and drifters have been arriving here for a century to get away from somewhere else, and staying.
Everything on the island turns towards the sea. The boats, the kitchens, the long afternoons.
The Talented Mr Ripley was filmed here. Perhaps Tom Ripley was never really after Dickie Greenleaf's identity, with its money and its ease. Perhaps what he wanted was the island itself, and when he held on to Marge he was holding on to the light coming off it.
A love letter to Procida.
