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  • A24
  • 2 h 16 m
  • A24
  • 2 h 16 m
Parthenope

Summary The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth. Which ends in ambush. And then all the o...

Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino

Written By: Paolo Sorrentino

  • A24
  • 2 h 16 m
  • A24
  • 2 h 16 m

Parthenope

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
58
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Summary The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth. Which ends in ambush. And then all the o...

Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino

Written By: Paolo Sorrentino

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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
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90
May 21, 2024
Parthenope is a film that rumbles with the hum of nostalgia, recapturing the feeling of youthful, summer freedom while refusing to shy away from the uncertainties of young adulthood. But it’s no mere coming-of-age story; rather, it’s a film about coming-to-oneself.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
82
May 21, 2024
You could argue that Sorrentino is treading water after the deeply personal explorations in “The Hand of God,” but these are rich and mysterious waters to tread. “Parthenope” is a work of casual mastery; you could say that it’s great and it’s beautiful.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
80
May 23, 2024
Our protagonist comes to feel like an avatar of the very ideas of youth and possibility, which also makes her an avatar of the opposite of those things — the idea that life eventually passes us all by. In creating a film about one beautiful person, Sorrentino reminds us that, in our memories, we were all beautiful once.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
60
May 22, 2024
Sorrentino is clearly trying to move with the times – even if he’s still most comfortable in the decades he’s depicting here on screen.
By Anna Smith FULL REVIEW
50
May 21, 2024
There’s much to appreciate in Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino’s second consecutive bittersweet paean to his home city of Naples. At least for a while, before the too-muchness of it takes hold and the character at the center stops being intriguing and just becomes a siren with an air of mystery but too little evidence of all that’s supposedly going on behind it.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
50
May 21, 2024
Preoccupied with the idea that a lack of self-knowledge is what makes people mysterious, Parthenope denies its namesake any real interiority, convinced that depriving us the chance to appreciate her perspective might somehow enhance her rhetorical value.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
40
May 21, 2024
We’ve had two-hours-plus to leaf through this empty life, but Sorrentino makes it amount to almost nothing, except his usual love letter to Napoli, and an added ode to side-boob.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company The Apartment, Pathé, Numero 10, PiperFilm, Saint Laurent
Duration 2 h 16 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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