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Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

This sweeping Neapolitan epic swaps traditional melodrama for a luminous, almost hallucinatory study of how physical perfection can both elevate and isolate a soul. Through decades of shifting social tides, the camera lingers on the mesmerizing, fleeting connection between a woman’s striking presence and the tides of the Mediterranean.

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