20/19
Is she a siren or a myth?
Synopsis
Partenope is a woman named after her city. In Greek myth, Partenope is a siren who committed suicide after failing to cast a spell on Odysseus. Her body was washed up by a flood to the place where the Castel dell’Ovo is now built, and she gave her name to the city that would later become Naples, Napoli.
In the film, Partenope is the epitome of the city of Naples
HeatWritten by Peter GregsonPerformed by Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak, Laurie Anderson, Ashok Klouda. Tempting wrapper. Endless strips.
Open it up and there’s nothing inside
Except for some old, worn rags of Fellini memorabilia. In Amarcord, 8 e mezzo, La Dolce Vita, the maestro created a structureless mix of images like this and turned it into a series of cinematic masterpieces, but he was able to do so thanks to his images. At first they were real: they were real images, real scenes, real events, recorded in his brain, although they were real processes of pain and sorrow, of fun, of sadness and joy.
There are no links
You: that is to say the whole range of human emotions. Sorrentino seems to think it’s an easy trick that he can copy and get the same results. But art doesn’t work that way.
