Parthenope

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Parthenope

R

2025

2h 16m

Romance

Drama

Fantasy

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Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.

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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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Catherine Wheatley

Sight & Sound

Nov 4

It is grotesque, magical, beautiful and tragic; awash with corruption and innocence and terrible poverty and mad decadence. In short, a perfect tribute to Sorrentino’s “dear, awful Naples”.

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David Sexton

New Statesman

05/05/2025

So bella figura conquers all. So much beauty, so senselessly.

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Ed Potton

The Times (UK)

05/03/2025

1/5

This is a film that strives desperately for beauty, sensuality and philosophical depth and only sporadically achieves the first of those.

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Guillermo Troncoso

Screen Realm

Jul 29

3/5

A film that, much like its protagonist, captivates on the surface but leaves you yearning for more beneath. While there’s visual splendour and the occasional wonderful sequence, the film struggles to find a meaningful, emotional core to pull us in.

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Clotilde Chinnici

Movies We Texted About

Jul 26

Unfortunately, this one is nothing more than a glorified – and overtly long – perfume commercial in the way it uses the male gaze to objectify the protagonist in the backdrop of a beautiful – but highly idealised – Naples we only catch glimpses of.

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Maxance Vincent

Film Speak

07/11/2025

A-

With Parthenope’s final sentence, Sorrentino instills in us the hope that it’s more than acceptable to misunderstand our place in this society, provided we don’t sit and do nothing for too long because everything we have can be over in an instant.

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Julia

02/27/2025

It's very interesting, very Italian, you must understand. Art! Bravo!

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Kurt E

02/26/2025

Interesting story. Held my attention even with the subtitles. Beautiful locations and cast with stunning lead actress. Seemed like a love- hate-love letter to Naples.

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Mr. Hollywood

02/24/2025

Scenery and cinematography is gorgeous and of course so is the main character but overall by the end its just a decent enough slice of life movie. Does not offer anything new and an out of the blue pointless character is shown, youll know what Im talking about. Couldve been better if it didnt make side scenes that didnt add much to anything

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Alex

02/24/2025

There is a unique beauty in this movie I haven’t seen elsewhere.

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dominicsedillo1980

02/23/2025

What an utter delight.

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Robert D

02/22/2025

Really disliked the movie! No direction! One of those movies where it seemed the director felt no obligation to the audience! Just throw a bunch of scenes up that he felt that he might enjoy filming for his own entertainment! Or to annoy people that took precious time and money to sit through it! I love Italy and Italians but this a pretty sad depiction of them!

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Synopsis

Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Producer: Lorenzo Mieli, Paolo Sorrentino, Ardavan Safaee, Anthony Vaccarello
Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Distributor: A24
Production Co: The Apartment
Rating: R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 7, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2025
Runtime: 2h 16m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1