Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Dir/scr: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy/France. 2024. 137mins. Time was when European arthouse films were alternatives to more explicit fare for young men keen to catch a glimpse of breast. That time is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this decadent drama about a beautiful young woman is a one-sided meditation on art, desire and spirituality. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

A softer Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is still a fertile imagemaker. That means a willing viewer can coast through much of the Italian writer-director’s new film, “Parthenope,” on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Key Scenes: Most of the film takes place in the city of Naples, as Parthenope takes in the art, culture and nightlife of the ...