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1. www.nytimes.com › 2022/04/08 › theater‘Penelope’ Review: Adrift Between Ithaca and Progress

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   Apr 8, 2022 · A new musical-comedy retelling of “The Odyssey” from the York Theater Company tries to center a powerful woman but feels like a show about and for men.

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     1h 44m. By Stephen Holden. Feb. 29, 2008. “Cinderella” meets...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2008/02/29 › moviesPenelope - Movie - Review - The New York Times

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   Feb 29, 2008 · 1h 44m. By Stephen Holden. Feb. 29, 2008. “Cinderella” meets “The Ugly Duckling” in “Penelope,” a muddled, charm-free fairy tale whose title character, played by Christina Ricci, is a rich girl...

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   • Director: Mark Palansky

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   1 day ago · This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the same title, centers on a British cardinal (a sensational Ralph Fiennes), and a campaign for a new pope. By Manohla Dargis

4. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › penelope-netflix-tvPenelope movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert

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   Sep 24, 2024 · But “Penelope” feels unconcerned with realism; it’s a flight of fancy, an odyssey not unlike the one in which her presumed namesake features. It’s your classic fable of a coddled protagonist fleeing their cozy civilization to test themselves in the wilderness.

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   Sep 24, 2024 · A 16-year-old girl leaves home to live in the wilderness in this beautifully shot, virtuosically acted, profoundly poetic drama.

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6. www.vulture.com › article › penelope-ending’Penelope’ Ending, Explained: Did Her Parents Die? - Vulture

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   Oct 4, 2024 · The final moment of the season is a shot that lingers on Penelope’s face as she processes the news. Her reaction is quiet, a little inscrutable, before the screen cuts to black.

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   Is 'Penelope' a true story?

   • But “Penelope” feels unconcerned with realism; it’s a flight of fancy, an odyssey not unlike the one in which her presumed namesake features. It’s your classic fable of a coddled protagonist fleeing their cozy civilization to test themselves in the wilderness.

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   What happens in Penelope's final moment of the season?

   • The final moment of the season is a shot that lingers on Penelope’s face as she processes the news. Her reaction is quiet, a little inscrutable, before the screen cuts to black. It’s a frustrating, conventional cliffhanger to what was otherwise a remarkably unconventional show.

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   Is Penelope a good series?

   • Penelope ’s abrupt ending might be its weakest point. But the series is true to its subject in that it’s less about the destination than about the adventure, its challenges and its revelatory moments and the texture of a life pared back to basics.

   Netflix's 'Penelope' Is Like Nothing Else on TV | TIME

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   Is 'Penelope' a musical?

   • The classicist Robert Graves — whose Butler-inspired 1955 novel, “ Homer’s Daughter,” imagines a Sicilian princess as the author of “The Odyssey” — called it “a poem about and for women,” its hero notwithstanding. “Penelope,” at the Theater at St. Jean’s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, feels like a musical about and for men.

   ‘Penelope’ Review: Adrift Between Ithaca and Progress

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   What happens when we meet Penelope?

   • When we meet Penelope, she is caught up in a moment of everyday transcendence, dancing in the neon-lit woods with other young people on some sort of camping trip. Everyone is listening to music on their own headphones; she’s surrounded by peers but also conspicuously alone.

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   How did Penelope become a tabloid celebrity?

   • Penelope, desperate to experience the real world, eventually runs away from home with a scarf wrapped over her nose and is befriended by Annie, a tough-talking bike messenger played by Reese Witherspoon (one of the movie’s producers in a thankless cameo performance). Once Penelope’s identity is discovered, she becomes a tabloid celebrity.

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8. theplaylist.net › penelope-review-a-beautifully‘Penelope’ Review: A Beautifully Straightforward Adventure ...

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   Jan 29, 2024 · After the train comes to a stop adjacent to a small town and Penelope is hurried off the premises by railyard security, a detour into a quaint Main Street shop sees her dig into several how-to guides as to wilderness survival as an open mic begins mere feet away; first up is an affable acoustic singer-songwriter (Austin Abrams), with whom ...