Parthenope

critic Reviews

, 49% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Equal parts sumptuous and vapid, Parthenope gains some radiance thanks to Celeste Dalla Porta's arresting performance but frustratingly finds writer-director Paolo Sorrentino out of his depth.
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    Seth KatzSlant Magazine
    The film’s succession of symbolically loaded vignettes is less meaningful than intended.
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    Stephen RomeiThe Australian
    If its main message is that beauty is only skin deep, then what we see is a bit like watching a languorous, glamorous lifestyle commercial on the big screen to make that rather obvious point.
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    Jake WilsonThe Age (Australia)
    Mostly the film is an experience you can drift through as the heroine drifts through life, enchanted and sceptical at once. Something to occupy the time, even if you’re less than fully sold.
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    Steve PondTheWrap
    “Parthenope” is a work of casual mastery; you could say that it’s great and it’s beautiful.
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    Siddhant AdlakhaVariety
    An exquisite treatise on cinematic beauty
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    Justin ChangThe New Yorker
    [Parthenope is] played by Celeste Dalla Porta, a great beauty indeed and an empathetic screen presence, though only fitfully does her character seem worthy of this movie’s epic enshrinement.
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    Edward DouglasThe Weekend Warrior (Substack)
    It often tries too hard to be provocative, but by the end, it was probably one of my favorite films directed by Sorrentino.
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    Avi OfferNYC Movie Guru
    Overstuffed and clunky with a meandering plot that bites off more than it could chew. Celeste Della Porta sizzles.
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    Carla MonfortEspinof
    ...the beauty of [Parthenope's] shots and its dreamlike vocation are not enough to overcome the inconsistency of its script, which is lost in its own charm and fails to present a discourse as profound as it really believes it has.
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    Nadine WhitneyThe Curb
    Parthenope is a gloriously constructed auteurist driven work. A must see experience for Paolo Sorrentino fans. It is also fetishistic and self-indulgent. Opulent and mesmeric, but thematically contradictory.
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