Is she a siren or a myth?
Tale
Partenope is a woman named after her city. In the Greek myth, Parthenope is the siren who committed suicide after failing to enchant Odysseus. Her body was carried by the tide to the place where the Castel dell’Ovo is now built, and for this she gave her name to the city that would later become Neapolis, Naples.
In the film, Parthenope is the incarnation of the city of Naples
WarmthWritten by Peter GregsonPlayed by Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak, Laurie Anderson, Ashok Klouda. That’s what I love about Sorrentino, that his films are like a book of a thousand existential questions that collide like electrons in the atom of our consciousness, trying to find the integrity of our own self. Parthenope is just one of those films, inciting us to so many questions: what do we think about when our gaze rises; why not use the beauty that you are endowed with, and what price are you willing to pay for it?
What is the power of love when we are young?
How do you bear the burden of being smarter than others and does it make you an abnormal person or just a sad and misunderstood person; if love, as a means of survival, has failed; when it is time to leave; what becomes of personal freedom when it is locked in a cage. Yet, there are questions to which we are not ready to know the answers, because we have not gone through suffering, and only it is the key to awareness. Parthenope is a sad film where personal freedom is forced to be locked up in order to survive and not be killed by the tyrannical and retrograde society that has one main occupation – to judge everyone with the iron hammer of its prejudices and traditions.
And in Naples, as you can see, there are many
A little hell in an apparent paradise where not everyone survives. To know what will be the fate of the minority whose emotional intelligence does not match the prejudices of the public, watch Parthenope and suffer! The important thing is not to judge anyone, so as not to be judged!