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Parthenope

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Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?

  • Director: Paolo Sorrentino
  • Main Cast: Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Stefania Sandrelli
  • Soundtrack: Lele Marchitelli
  • Cinematography: Daria D'Antonio
  • Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino




What do English critics think?

English Reviews

11 english reviews of Parthenope (2024)

  • 1. Variety
    9 / 10

    "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.
    - Siddhant Adlakha

    Variety »

  • 2. The Wrap
    8.2 / 10

    "Parthenope" is a work of casual mastery; you could say that it’s great and it’s beautiful.
    - Steve Pond

    thewrap.com »

  • 3. New York Times
    8 / 10

    "Parthenope" gradually becomes about something other than one person’s beauty.
    - Bilge Ebiri

    nytimes.com »

  • 4. The Playlist
    7.5 / 10

    Parthenope’s fictional life story may actually not be as intriguing as Sorrentino thinks it is. A movie that begins with blistering sex appeal really starts to lose momentum in its third act.
    - Gregory Ellwood

    The Playlist »

  • 5. Time Out
    6 / 10

    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.
    - Anna Smith

    Time Out »

  • 6. Screen Daily
    5 / 10

    "Parthenope" feels like a circus act.
    - Lee Marshall

    Screen Daily »

  • 7. Hollywood Reporter
    5 / 10

    Parthenope’s adventures become increasingly arcane.
    - David Rooney

    hollywoodreporter.com »

  • 8. IndieWire
    5 / 10

    Parthenope can only be happy when she is free from the curse of her own stunning existence, though by the end of Sorrentino’s film it can’t help but feel as if he is the one who is blind to everything else.
    - David Ehrlich

    IndieWire »

  • 9. The Guardian
    4 / 10

    The heroine is a victim of her own beauty in this exercise in languorous image-making that is too conceited to allow any emotional investment
    - Peter Bradshaw

    theguardian.com »

  • 10. The Telegraph
    4 / 10

    Gary Oldman can’t save this utterly vacuous love letter to Naples
    - Tim Robey

    telegraph.co.uk »

  • 11. Collider
    3 / 10

    "Parthenope" is a misfire of a film that chronicles the life of its titular character from her birth in 1950 to adulthood.
    - Emma Kiely

    collider.com »

Reviews by critics from other countries

Foreign Reviews

8 foreign reviews of Parthenope (2024)

  • 1. Dagens Nyheter
    8 / 10

    Translated from swedish: To succeed in giving new life to such worn-out subjects as the dilapidated Bay of Naples, men who yearn for beautiful women, inebriated poets in wrinkled linen costumes who romanticize youth (a glimpse of Gary Oldman), hysterical Italian aunts who scream for miracles and so on requires giving everything you have. That is what Sorrentino has done.
    - Kerstin Gezelius

    Swedish: dn.se »

  • 2. Moviezine
    6 / 10

    Translated from swedish: "Parthenope" is the weakest of Paolo Sorrentino's later films, which really says more about his lowest level than the film itself.
    - Jonna Vanhatalo

    Swedish: moviezine.se »

  • 3. Sydsvenskan
    6 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Beautiful but unruly
    - Annika Gustafsson

    Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »

  • 4. Kulturbloggen
    6 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Worth seeing but does not fully engage
    - Ulf Olsson

    Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »

  • 5. Aftonbladet
    4 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Exactly what Sorrentino wants to tell, however, is rather unclear in this sprawling film.
    - Jan-Olov Andersson

    Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

  • 6. Göteborgs-Posten
    4 / 10

    Translated from swedish: There are plenty of fleeting romances and captivating views of Naples in Paolo Sorrentino's "Parthenope". But the film lacks substance.
    - Mats Johnson

    Swedish: gp.se »

  • 7. Sveriges Radio
    4 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Pretentious about the beauty of young women
    - Emma Engström

    Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

  • 8. Uppsala Nya Tidning
    4 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Paolo Sorrentino's beautifully stylized "Parthenope" is very much surface and far too little substance.
    - Emma Thimgren

    Swedish: unt.se »