Director Christophe Honoré and the actress are reunited once more within the official collection of the 77th version of the pageant. They provide us a nostalgic and poetic comedy, and a wonderful tribute to Marcello Mastroianni and to the seventh artwork usually.
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Revealed on 05/22/2024 4:03 p.m. Up to date on 05/22/2024 10:55 p.m.
Studying time: 3 min Chiara Mastroianni in “Marcello Mio” by Christophe Honoré. (THE PELLEAS FILMS)
Learn how to proceed residing with the demise of a beloved one? Learn how to convey lacking individuals again to life? How can we keep in mind the faces that fade? So many existential questions that filmmaker Christophe Honoré has been exploring in his work for greater than twenty years. Of the Love songs in 2007, in Highschool pupil in 2022 through In Paris in 2006 and extra just lately on the theater in The Sky of Nantes, Christophe Honoré by no means stops summoning the ghosts of the previous. The movie hits theaters Wednesday, Might 21. With Marcello Mio, offered this yr within the official collection of the Cannes Movie Competition, the director as soon as once more probes the topic of filiation and mourning. However this time, he takes on a cinema monster: Marcello Mastroianni.
To play the actor who died in 1996, he naturally requested his daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, to play her personal position. And the query will come up once more with a cinematic dimension. How can we convey again the reminiscence of a being who haunts our lives as a lot because the movie? To help him on this quest for identification, the director surrounds him with an intimate and household solid. Catherine Deneuve, Benjamin Biolay, Melvil Poupaud, Fabrice Luchini, Nicole Garcia, all in their very own roles, enter kind of joyfully into this dreamlike farce.
All of it begins with a shoot that turns right into a nightmare. Beneath the cries of an excited director, Chiara Mastroianni is ordered to replay the scene of the Candy life in a fountain in Paris. A legendary sequence that she is aware of nicely, since within the unique movie directed by Fellini in 1960, it’s her father, Marcello, who performs the title position alongside Anita Ekeberg. Wearing a blonde wig and a endless gown, Chiara Mastroianni turns into conscious of the absurdity of the scene. A casting adopted with Fabrice Luchini for Nicole Garcia’s movie. On the finish of the exams, the director tells him: “On this scene, I would love you to be much less Deneuve than Mastroianni!” An injunction which can resonate in a singular means within the actress’s unconscious. Quick hair, males’s glasses, hat, mustache, Chiara will slip into Marcello’s costume with delight. And it really works ! As a result of the resemblance is placing.
Confronted with this stunning transition, these near them will every react in numerous methods. Believing in a passing fad, her mom, Catherine Deneuve, and her former companion, Benjamin Biolay, encompass her with tenderness and kindness. “She wants her father.” explains his mom. “You miss your father”, tries to interpret Benjamin Biolay. However others, quite the opposite, don’t spare it. Beginning with Nicole Garcia: “What is that this joke once more!”, she will get aggravated. As for his teenage sweetheart, Melvil Poupaud, it’s anger that wins. There stays an surprising character who rushes with pleasure into this new horizon, Fabrice Luchini who will lastly have the ability to turn into Marcello Mastroianni’s buddy.
On this new opus, Christophe Honoré invitations, as soon as once more, extinct souls. He provides poetry and humor. Chiara remodeled into Marcello elegantly traverses the reminiscences (actual or fantasized) of her childhood.
Throughout her journey of reminiscence, she meets impromptu individuals. An English soldier prepared to leap from a Paris bridge, a canine in search of companionship, a fragile kitten. Her wanderings take her to the rooftops of the capital, to the previous household condominium, after which to Rome. The attraction of this melancholic comedy is principally because of the luminous interpretation of Chiara Mastroianni.
Like a tightrope walker who walks on the wire of a heritage that’s typically too heavy, the actress rushes headlong into the twists and turns of a fantasy that she tries to the touch. Removed from a nostalgic fresco, Marcello Mio additionally makes us snicker, specifically because of the replies of Catherine Deneuve who in a couple of phrases deconstructs the picture of the legend.
Fiction or documentary, Christophe Honoré mixes the true and the false, bringing a cinematic monument to life. Regardless of some sequences which might be too lengthy, he manages to interact Marcello Mastroianni’s lovers.
Poster for the movie “Marcello Mio” by Christophe Honoré. (DR)
Style : Comedy
Director: Christophe Honoré
Situation : Christophe Honoré
With : Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Nicole Garcia, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Biolay, Hugh Skinner
Pays : France
Period : 2h01
Sortie : Might 21, 2024
Synopsis : It is the story of a girl referred to as Chiara. She is an actress, she is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve and, for one summer time, disrupted in her personal life, she tells herself that she ought to somewhat reside her father’s life.
