Parthenope, the tragic goddess of Paolo Sorrentino: trailer
The Italian director films the Celeste Dalla revelation carried in an existential fable.
Paolo Sorrentino left empty -handed from the last Cannes Film Festival with Parthenopebut the appearance of Celeste Dalla Porta, the actress who plays the title role, will still have marked the spirits.
Parthenopeit is a mermaid of Greek mythology, but also the ancient name of Naples, hometown and obsession of the filmmaker, who was already at the heart of his previous film, God’s handwhere we discovered this young Italian model in a small scene in the cinema. Its beauty serves as a base for this melodrama where we also meet Gary Oldman In the shoes of the alcoholic writer John William Cheever.
Synopsis:
Life, like a long journey, of Parthenope, from its birth in the 1950s to the present day. A female epic without heroism, overflowing with an inexorable passion for freedom, for Naples and the faces of love. True, useless and unspeakable loves. The perfect summer in Capri of a youth bathed in carelessness. And which ends in ambush. And then all the others, the Neapolitans, men and women, frequented, observed and loved, disillusioned and vital, their melancholy drifts, their tragic irons and their slightly slaughtered eyes. Life, memorable or ordinary, knows how to be very long. The course of time offers a large repertoire of feelings. And there, at the bottom, near and distant, this indefinable city, Naples, which bewoved, enchants, howls, laughs and knows how to hurt us.
Parthenope will be released in the cinema in France on March 12, 2025. Trailer:
