Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta) is a young woman growing up in Naples, Italy, in the 1960s-70s. Men, boys, and even some women are struck by her alluring beauty, desiring her affection at every turn.

In Greek mythology, the Sirens were half-bird women whose song was so beautiful that it would lure sailors to their deaths along the rocky shores of the island where they lived. See: “The Odyssey.” ...

Beauty, we’re told, is in the eye of the beholder. There are some types of beauty that go beyond the subjective, however — the kind that stops traffic, turns modest men into Tex-Avery-style wolves and ...

As winter rages on, now is the perfect time to escape to the Italian coast via a screening of Parthenope, the new Paolo Sorrentino movie that is coming to U.S. theaters this weekend. Of course, just ...

Parthenope is born by in the sea, the daughter of a wealthy family with an ostentatious coastal villa and little to do but sun themselves. She shows an early predilection for knowledge, reading ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Parthenope. Three years after the release of his most personal film, the autobiographical, Oscar-nominated coming-of-age story The Hand of God, Paolo ...

The Oscar-winning director and the film's star Celeste Dalla Porta tell IndieWire how their A24 film marks an unusual, female-forward step in Sorrentino's filmography. The Naples set coming-of-age ...

It’s easy to dismiss Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, as some critics have, reducing it to a sumptuous perfume ad à la Tom Ford. The same could be said about Celeste Dalla Porta’s eponymous character, ...