'Parthenope' Review: The Great Oddity

Sorrentino's work in Parthenope begins in the 1950s and ends, it would be too much to say, in the present, without being able to perceive anything more than the obsessive insistence on portraying Celeste Dalla Porta, a pretty face on a beautiful body at the service of a soulless character: the woman who never existed. This long chronicle of time could have given an account of the recent history of Naples, but it barely manages to plough through …

Rarely do we get as much eroticism on the cinema screen as in Sorrentino's new film. Especially portrayed so beautifully. But is that all? And if so, is it enough to call a movie good?