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Parthenope

"Is she a siren or a myth?"

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Top Cast

  • Celeste Dalla Porta

    Celeste Dalla Porta

    Parthenope

  • Stefania Sandrelli

    Stefania Sandrelli

    Parthenope (old)

  • Gary Oldman

    Gary Oldman

    John Cheever

  • Silvio Orlando

    Silvio Orlando

    Devoto Marotta

  • Luisa Ranieri

    Luisa Ranieri

    Greta Cool

  • Peppe Lanzetta

    Peppe Lanzetta

    Bishop

  • Isabella Ferrari

    Isabella Ferrari

    Flora Malva

  • Silvia Degrandi

    Silvia Degrandi

    Maggie

  • Lorenzo Gleijeses

    Lorenzo Gleijeses

    Sasà

Overview

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Rating

6.7 / 10
756 Reviews
3 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 25, 2025

    Along the lines of the legendary beauty Aphrodite, “Parthenope” (Celeste Dalla Porta) was born in the sea and grew to become a great temptress to both of her male contemporaries. The first being her obsessed brother “Raimondo” (Daniele Rienzo) and the other her adoring childhood friend “Sandrino” (Dario Aita) whose unrequited love for her drove him to distraction. Not, however, to such distraction as that of her sibling, It’s when the trio decide to head for an unfunded trip from their home in Naples to the nearby island of Capri that she meets elderly American writer/dipso “Cheever” (Gary Oldman) who finds her intriguing but appears to have a certain immunity to her charms and she’s not used to that. Whilst on this carefree trip there befalls a tragic realisation that causes all of them to appreciate the stark realities and fickle shallowness of their lives and brings into focus senses of grief, rejection and emptiness. It’s a beautifully photographed piece of cinema, this film, with sparing dialogue and a sexually, but not explicitly so, charged chemistry abundant throughout this rather visually extravagant but disappointingly soulless drama. It is a bit like a postcard upon which is a beautiful picture but just too few words to develop the characters or to quite put enough meat on their perfectly formed bones. Indeed as the second hour starts to drag, the whole thing begins to look more like a repetitively self-indulgent vanity exercise that might be rooted in mythology but that struggles to engage beyond the superficial. It’s classy and stylish and well worth a look - but look appears to be all Paolo Sorrentino wants us to do.

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