Parthenope

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Parthenope

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Released Feb 7

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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Critics Consensus

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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David Sexton

New Statesman

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

May 5, 2025

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Ed Potton

The Times (UK)

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

Rated: 1/5

May 3, 2025

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

Narratively, Parthenope is a sprawling mess of off-the-wall digressions...

Rated: 2/5

May 3, 2025

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Maxance Vincent

Film Speak

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.

Rated: A-

Jul 11, 2025

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

A drama in which Sorrentino, with his usual aesthetic, throws in a couple of shots of Mediterranean elegance, but unfortunately, it's narrative is a vacuous siren song that feels like a paid endorsement from Yves Saint Laurent. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/10

Jun 29, 2025

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John Serba

Decider

The character and performance never rise to the robustness of the images, and the film suffers for it, loping along with vague intention, essentially being a stringing-together of odd, almost Odyssey-like encounters.

Jun 12, 2025

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Julia

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

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/25

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Kurt E

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.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/25

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Mr. Hollywood

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

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

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Alex

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

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

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dominicsedillo1980

What an utter delight.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/25

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Robert D

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!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/22/25

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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

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