[2] An international co-production between Italy and France, the film stars Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Peppe Lanzetta and Isabella Ferrari.

Or perhaps she could have a romantic fling with the ugly bishop who attends the miracle of the dried blood that turns liquid each year, the phenomenon she is studying in anthropology.

[3] Parthenope was co-produced by Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle's The Apartment Pictures and Ardavan Safaee for Pathé, in association with Sorrentino's Numero 10, PiperFilm, Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent Productions and Logical Content Ventures.

[6] Parthenope was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 21 May 2024[7][8] and earned a nine-and-a-half minute standing ovation at the end of its screening.

The website's consensus reads: "Equal parts sumptuous and vapid, Parthenope gains some radiance thanks to Celeste Dalla Porta's arresting performance but frustratingly finds writer-director Paolo Sorrentino out of his depth.

[17][18] Cineuropa's Davide Abbatescianni defines it as Sorrentino's "less accomplished feature film, technically impeccable but narratively weak," adding how Dalla Porta's character "is too cryptic," making the audience "struggle to understand her behaviour, her arrogance and audacity, and the many bombastic and didactic conversations she's part of.