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Shadowmoon
“Beauty is like war, it opens doors.”
‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Drives Himself Crazy Trying to Imagine What Life Would Be Like for the World’s Most Beautiful Woman
Just a really bad line from ‘Parthenope’ delivered by Gary Oldman playing a closeted John Cheever
But really, “Parthenope” is just a long movie made by a middle-aged man who almost drives himself insane trying to imagine what life would be like as an unbelievably hot woman.
A ★★½ review of Parthenope (2024)
“To read – and announce oneself as having read – literature in translation is to be tasteful and intelligent, a latter-day cosmopolitan in an age of blighted provincialism,” Perelmuter writes, determined to get credit for reviewing a 512-page book from Hungary while sneering at anyone else who tries.
“Age poleaxes us all…” - Guadalupe Nettel, The Accidentals
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski