Celeste Dalla Porta

Stefania Sandrelli

Gary Oldman

Silvio Orlando

Luisa Ranieri

Peppe Lanzetta

Isabella Ferrari

Silvia Degrandi

Lorenzo Gleijeses

Daniele Rienzo

Dario Aita

Marlon Joubert

Alfonso Santagata

Biagio Izzo

Nello Mascia

Francesca Romana Bergamo

Brando Improta

Riccardo Lai

Alessandro Paniccià

Cristiano Scotto di Galletta

Luigi Bruno

Francesco Russo

Margherita Aresti

Antonio Annina

Martina Attanasio

Liliana Bottone

Mariarosaria Bozzone

Giovanni Buselli

Paola Calliari

Ciro Capano

Simona Capozzi

Marisa Carluccio

Mariacarla Casillo

Irene Ciavalini

Riccardo Coppola

Antinea Curatolo

Tonia De Micco

Teresa Del Vecchio

Concetta Di Grazia

Germana Di Marino

Loredana Di Martino

Francesco Ferrante

Elena Gigliotti

Antonio Intorcia

Paolo Mazzarelli

Marianna Mercurio

Peppe Miale

Daphne Morelli

Biagio Musella

Teresa Picozzi

Franco Pinelli

Alfonso Postiglione

Gianluca Pugliese

Emilio Salvatore

Anna Maria Teresa Ricci

Maurizio Stella

Francesco Tortora

Roberto Urbani

Emanuela Villagrossi

Michele Del Viscovo

Ardavan Safaee

Anthony Vaccarello

Paolo Sorrentino

Douglas Urbanski

Massimo Appolloni

Annamaria Sambucco

Carlo Poggioli

Lorenzo Mieli

Vittoria Tarenzi

Francesco Sabez

Valentino Amato

Emanuele Cecere

Mirko Perri

Silvia Moraes

Rocco Messere

Elena Recchia

Michele Mazzucco

Lele Marchitelli

Daniele Platania

Cristiano Travaglioli

Daria D'Antonio

Carmine Guarino

Zachary Fox

Iole Autero

Paola Gattabrusi

Jacopo Bonvicini

Drama

Parthenope

The Apartment Pictures

Pathé

Numero10

Saint Laurent Productions

PiperFilm

Logical Content Ventures

Saint Laurent

France

Italy

CinemaSerf

Along the lines of the legendary beauty Aphrodite, “Parthenope” (Celeste Dalla Porta) was born in the sea and grew to become a great temptress to both of her male contemporaries. The first being her obsessed brother “Raimondo” (Daniele Rienzo) and the other her adoring childhood friend “Sandrino” (Dario Aita) whose unrequited love for her drove him to distraction. Not, however, to such distraction as that of her sibling, It’s when the trio decide to head for an unfunded trip from their home in Naples to the nearby island of Capri that she meets elderly American writer/dipso “Cheever” (Gary Oldman) who finds her intriguing but appears to have a certain immunity to her charms and she’s not used to that. Whilst on this carefree trip there befalls a tragic realisation that causes all of them to appreciate the stark realities and fickle shallowness of their lives and brings into focus senses of grief, rejection and emptiness. It’s a beautifully photographed piece of cinema, this film, with sparing dialogue and a sexually, but not explicitly so, charged chemistry abundant throughout this rather visually extravagant but disappointingly soulless drama. It is a bit like a postcard upon which is a beautiful picture but just too few words to develop the characters or to quite put enough meat on their perfectly formed bones. Indeed as the second hour starts to drag, the whole thing begins to look more like a repetitively self-indulgent vanity exercise that might be rooted in mythology but that struggles to engage beyond the superficial. It’s classy and stylish and well worth a look - but look appears to be all Paolo Sorrentino wants us to do.