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Parthenope is not a film for everyone. Nor is it trying to be. It’s quietly reflective and also a bit weird and vague. Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope is an Italian coming-of-age story that sees its titular character at different stages in her life. Sometimes she’s aimlessly wandering through her life, unable to settle on any particular decision. At other points, Parthenope is thrown into situations and forced to deal with the consequences.
Youth and beauty are, in many ways, also Parthenope’s enemy, especially as those around her verbally share their perceptions and expectations of her beauty and what it will and won’t do for her. Parthenope is encouraged to be an actress; she has the face for it says one character. So she tries, taking acting classes from Flora Malva , a former actress who hides behind hats and odd face masks to conceal the disfiguration from too much work done to maintain her beauty.
Parthenope Is Visually Stunning With Something To Say To that end, the film reflects on the feeling of being afloat and it’s something we can all empathize with on some level. Sorrentino’s film is an intriguing, if overlong, exploration of the roads taken and not taken, on the past and how it shapes us and the distractions along the way that cloud our ruminations on what we want before it’s too late.
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