Now a Cannes veteran, French filmmaker Christophe Honoré has returned to the Competitors with the world premiere of Marcello Mio, his French-Italian comedy that stars longtime collaborator Chiara Mastroianni — who, within the movie, adopts the persona and look of her late father, Marcello Mastroianni. The film acquired applause that lasted a contact over eight minutes throughout its unveiling this night.
Marcello Mio faucets into the youthful Mastroianni’s advanced actuality of being the daughter of cinema icons Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
In a fantasy state of affairs, Chiara hits a disaster level and begins to decorate, converse and breathe like her late father, the legendary star of such movies as La Dolce Vita, 81/2 and Marriage Italian Model. These round her, together with Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Biolay, Nicole Garica and Hugh Skinner, who additionally play part-real, part-fictionalized variations of themselves in Marcello Mio, start to consider it and begin to name her “Marcello.”
The journey takes Chiara to her father’s dwelling metropolis of Rome, the place she revisits outdated haunts and key backdrops of his filmography even leaping within the Trevi Fountain for her personal La Dolce Vita second.
Honoré and Mastroianni beforehand collaborated On A Magical Night time (Chambre 212) which premiered in Un Sure Regard and received Mastroianni a Greatest Actress prize.
That is Honoré’s fifth time in Cannes and third in Competitors, after Love Songs in 2007 and Sorry Angel in 2018.
Marcello Mio is lead produced by Paris-based Les Movies Pelléas, which produced Anatomy of a Fall with Les Movies de Pierre, in co-production with Bibi Movies and Fortunate Crimson. Advert Vitam has French rights and mk2 movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales.