Paolo Sorrentino's latest hymn to his
native Naples, Parthenope, got mixed reviews Wednesday after
debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday where the tale of a
woman personifying the southern Italian city is up for the Palme
d'Or.
Parthenope stars newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta as the title
character as a young woman while Italian screen legend Stefania
Sandrelli has a cameo as her in old age.
Gary Oldman plays alcoholic American writer John Cheever.
Sorrentino, who won the best foreign film Oscar in 2013 with The
Great Beauty, about Rome, and who won further acclaim with The
Hand of God, about Naples, in 2021, has said the film is about a
woman named Parthenope "who bears the name of her city but is
neither siren nor myth."
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