2024 · comedy · drama
Marcello Mio
Directed by Christophe Honoré2h 1m2024
Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…
Our read: Marcello Mio (2024) reads as a warm, measured, surreal comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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