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 Celeste Dalla Porta gives a dynamic performance in the captivating Neapolitan drama from the director of “The Great Beauty.” “Parthenope,” a decades-spanning drama about a young woman born in Naples (the hometown of screenwriter-director Paolo Sorrentino), is an exquisite treatise on cinematic beauty. Chronicling her birth, her teenage summers, and the years she spends adrift as a young adult, the film is a heady reflection on the way people and places see each other — and the way they see themselves. Director: Paolo Sorrentino Writer: Paolo Sorrentino Stars: Dario Aita, Antonino Annina, Margherita Aresti Celeste Dalla Porta gives a captivating performance as the film’s title character, a woman of such breathtaking beauty that people stop and stare. Her allure is practically unsettling — an idea the camera embodies by presenting her through pristine, symmetrical vistas that appear suddenly, as if demanding that the editing skip over their dramatic connective tissue. After all, she...