Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope

New cinema conversation for the weekend with my good friend Sebastian di Giovanni! The Oscars are coming & it’s not going to be pretty, so here, instead we talk about a movie we both loved: Parthenope, by Italian master Paolo Sorrentino. The title is a Greek name, it means virgin-eyed (I think the construction, however, is passive—looking like a virgin), the name of a siren…