The film had its world premiere in the main competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2024, being theatrically released in France on the same day by Ad Vitam Distribution.
Plot
Chiara is an actress and the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she tells herself that she should rather live her father's life. She now dresses like him, speaks like him, breathes like him and she delivers it with such command that others around her end up believing it and begin calling her "Marcello".[1]
Principal photography began on 21 August 2023 in Paris, and continued in Rome,[4] then in Latina and Formia, the latter of which was a city dear to Marcello Mastroianni.[5] Filming was scheduled to be completed after eight weeks, specifically on 13 October.[6]
Release
Marcello Mio was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival,[7] where it had its world premiere on 21 May 2024.[8]Ad Vitam Distribution theatrically released the film in France on the same day.[1] Lucky Red theatrically released the film in Italy on 23 May 2024.[9]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 20 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.4/10.[11]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 47 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[12] On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 30 reviews from French critics.[13]
