In Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino films beauty like no one else — dazzling on the surface, but always haunted by tragedy. At first, Naples shimmers: the sea, the light, the people. But as the story deepens, the illusion fades, and the characters are drawn to face truth, reality, and destiny.

Parthenope begins as a siren, admired and mythologised, but the loss of her brother pushes her from being an image to becoming a witness. Choosing anthropology, she learns to see —…