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Isabel Coixet to Direct Drama ‘Tre Ciotole,’ Starring Italy’s Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano (EXCLUSIVE)
Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”) will next direct “Tre Ciotole,” a drama starring Italian A-listers Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano. The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name by late Italian writer Michela Murgia.
Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Parthenope’ Gives Us One of the Great Modern Heroines — a
First for the Italian Filmmaker
The Oscar-winning director and the film’s star Celeste Dalla Porta tell IndieWire how their A24 film marks an unusual, female-forward step in Sorrentino’s filmography.
‘Parthenope’ Is Already the Horniest Movie of 2025
Even by Italian Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s over-the-top standards, this ode to a beautiful young woman is dying of thirst
Review: A master sensualist returns with an alluring star and not much else in ‘Parthenope’
A softer Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is still a fertile imagemaker. That means a willing viewer can coast through much of the Italian writer-director’s new film, “Parthenope,” on an enigmatic bliss-out of Neapolitan beauty (both people and places) and languid charm. The rest of the time, though, things are pretty but unfocused, like dreams that are half-remembered, not tangible enough to incur real meaning.
Roger Erbert Review
Born in the waters off the coast of Naples, the 18-year-old Parthenope is first seen as she emerges dripping from the sea, smoking a cigarette, leaving a male suitor entranced. Named for a siren of Greek myth and the ancient name of her birthplace, this clearly statuesque and intellectually insatiable young woman (Celeste Dalla Porta, ambrosial in her first film role) has recently grown aware of the “disruption” her beauty causes, as one character puts it, but knows not yet how to harness its power for her own purposes—nor what those greater ambitions even are.
How Celeste Dalla Porta went from film school to starring in Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope with Gary Oldman
“I was literally shaking,” the actress says of meeting Sorrentino, adding that getting the part was “the most emotional moment of my entire life.”
Parthenope Review: I Was Completely Entranced By Paolo Sorrentino’s Strange Yet Fascinating Coming-Of-Age Drama
Parthenope is not a film for everyone. Nor is it trying to be. It’s quietly reflective and also a bit weird and vague. Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope is an Italian coming-of-age story that sees its titular character at different stages in her life. Sometimes she’s aimlessly wandering through her life, unable to settle on any particular decision. At other points, Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta) is thrown into situations and forced to deal with the consequences. And yet, she floats, indecisive and curious, observant and filled with sorrow.
‘Parthenope’ Review: Goddess Worship
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this decadent drama about a beautiful young woman is a one-sided meditation on art, desire and spirituality.
Vermiglio Shines as an Honest Portrait of Motherhood, Faith, and Tradition
It’s fitting — maybe even more than coincidence — that I stumbled upon Vermiglio, a film deeply rooted in the trials and joys of parenting, just 72 hours before my wife and I are set to welcome our daughter, Lucia, into the world. It is also the name of the film’s protagonist, a young woman in a remote Italian Alpine village whose life is upended by love, war, and duty. Though set in 1944, Vermiglio never feels like a relic. Instead, it allows us to see the past not through the condescending lens of modernity, but as the world our grandparents were born into — one of hardship, sacrifice, and resilience.
Maura Delpero discusses her film ‘Vermiglio’, winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Venice
NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero about her new film, “Vermiglio”, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film festival.