Parthenope

Gary Oldman stars in this fantastical life-story drama, nominated for the Palme d'Or, from BAFTA-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty).

The life of Parthenope - neither siren nor myth - from her birth in 1950 to the present day. Her long existence embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth's lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, nighttime kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings and new beginnings.

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