Parthenope. Cinema evento in arena

Saturday, August 9th, we look forward to seeing you in the arena with Parthenope ✨

Plot

Parthenope is an enchanting young woman born from the waters who seduces every man she meets, including her brother Raimondo, her first and unforgettable love. Parthenope is also the siren at the center of the founding myth of the city of Naples, which, as Matilde Serao wrote in "Leggende napoletane," "lives, splendid, young, and beautiful, for five thousand years, and still runs over the hills, wanders on the beach, looks out towards the volcano, and gets lost in the valleys." The protagonist of Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope does exactly this, continuously losing herself and attracting gay writers, university professors, priests in charge of miracles, and camorra bosses. But the most devoted remains Sandrino (the diminutive Sorrentino assigns to his alter egos), a friend since the perfect summer when he and his siren, with Raimondo, "were beautiful and unhappy."

Notes

Parthenope continues Paolo Sorrentino's backward journey to his hometown, left in suspense with "The Hand of God," when Fabietto traveled on a train heading back to Rome, abandoning the city that is indeed "a dirty piece of paper," but it's not true that "nobody cares," because the director cares a great deal about his beautiful and lost Naples.

"How immense life is, you get lost everywhere," reads the Céline quote that opens the film, highlighting Sorrentino's sweet yet painful disorientation. The director entrusts his protagonist with this longing, best expressed through songs, from the heartbreaking "Era già tutto previsto" by Riccardo Cocciante, emphasizing the inexhaustibly predictable nature of a city made to break your heart, to "Che cosa c'è" by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni, evoking the inexplicability (and inevitability) of every infatuation, and especially to the "uncontainable sound" that is the music of Enzo Avitabile.

Full ticket €7 | Reduced €5.50 (over 65, under 18, Resine members)

See you at 9:00 PM in Viale delle Rimembranze 11, Polignano a Mare.
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