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The lover’s ailment is different from all ailments;
Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.
(Rumi)

If someone asks me what my definition of cinema is, this film is the ultimate proof of it.
Partenope is a window to the act of seeing—
Seeing the utmost beauty,
Seeing beyond anthropology,
Seeing everything that takes shape within; it makes the invisible visible,
Opening windows toward Manifestation.

Revolution? Which revolution?
Gender equality? What gender equality?
Independence? What independence?
All of these are nothing but straw.
Locusts have descended upon the wheat harvest; like everyone else, I am out of work.
Reforms: the greatest lie and deceit of politicians.
The countdown to the death of humanity has begun.

A profoundly beautiful and commendable work in the grotesque style, a piece filled with revolutionary references and, at the same time, anti-revolutionary sentiments.