Parthenope review — soft porn and not much else
Parthenope, played for most of the film by Celeste Dalla Porta, is as gorgeous as the Neapolitan scenery in which Sorrentino plonks her. The director certainly thinks so, lingering lasciviously on her bikini-clad form in scene after scene. It's two fingers up at #MeToo and a baseball bat to his reputation.
This is a film that strives desperately for beauty, sensuality and philosophical depth and only sporadically achieves the first of those. Even the beauty
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