‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Chiara Mastroianni And Catherine Deneuve Play Themselves In An Amusing Family Affair Like No Other – Cannes Film Festival
deadline.comTalk about an identity crisis! In a wonderfully funny and completely original comedy, French star Chiara Mastroianni in a bit of an existential crisis mode decides one day to morph into her very famous father, the late great Marcello Mastroianni.
In a search for her own identity she discovers more about herself, her father, even her equally famous mother Catherine Deneuve who surprisingly consented to play herself and discover truths about her relationship with her ex-finacé (he died in 1996) that had never been made public.
Playing tonight in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival, where the entire family has appeared many times as fictional characters, this time it hits close to home, but always with a light touch as Chiara drops her own persona and hits the town as if it were Marcello Mastroianni back in Fellini’s 8 1/2.
Black suit, hat, moustache, large glasses — she’s all in. It all seems just as surreal as a Fellini film as Chiara looks into the mirror and soon sees the image of her father looking back.
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