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The Festival de Cannes competition presented Sean Baker’s Anora, Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope.
Festival de Cannes 2024 : for the seventh day of competition, no less than three films: Anora by Sean Baker who returns to competition three years after Red Rocket; Christophe Honoré‘s Marcello Mio, the writer-director’s sixteenth feature-length fantasy; and Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino, back on the Croisette nine years after Youth.
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Cinderella and Prince Charming
With Tangerine, in which, equipped with an iPhone, he filmed transsexual prostitutes on the pavements of Hollywood, The Florida Project, describing the precarious daily life of little Moonee and her mother, and Red Rocket, in which he directed a retired porn actor forced to squat on his ex-wife’s sofa, Sean Baker has confirmed his talent as one of today’s top American directors. Anora follows in the footsteps of his previous films – although this time Baker is directing a film about rich people – in his biggest production to date. Shot in a cleaner 70s film aesthetic, the film tells the story – with a touch of humor – of a love affair between Ani (Mickey Madison), a young stripper from Brooklyn, and Yvan (Yuriy Borisov), the son of a Russian oligarch. Unfortunately, the young man’s parents, outraged by this mismatch, leave for New York with the firm intention of separating Cinderella from her Prince Charming…
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Marcello mio, yet another film about actors
Playing herself alongside her late father Marcello Mastroianni, Chiara Mastroianni (Master of Ceremonies at the 2023 Festival), accompanied by her mother Catherine Deneuve, Benjamin Biolay, Melvil Poupaud, as well as Nicole Garcia and Fabrice Luchini, decides to bring Marcello back to life through her. She now wears a hat and glasses, calls herself Marcello, dresses like him and wants to be seen as “an actor”. A theme that’s right up there with the woke non-binary trend! And she re-enacts the mythical scene at the Trevi Fountain. “She’s like a sleepwalker, you mustn’t wake her up suddenly”, says her mother, while her friends and family become exasperated. This is Chiara Mastroianni’s seventh collaboration with Christophe Honoré, having begun in 2007 with Les Chansons d’amour. It’s good, it’s French, it’s navel-gazing, it’s all about “entre-soi”…
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Parthenope, the myth of the siren
Set in Naples, Parthenope tells the story of a young woman – born on a beach in the 1950s – from childhood to adulthood, against a backdrop of the city overlooked by Mount Vesuvius. Parthenope is the name of one of the mermaids in the Odyssey: according to legend, she falls in love with Ulysses, but he asks his crew to plug their ears with wax and tie him to the ship’s mast. Based on the myth of the siren of Naples, founder of the city, tutelary figure (partenopeo refers to the Neapolitans) and muse for artists, Paolo Sorrentino, a regular on the Croisette – seven of his eight works were selected at Cannes – delivers a postcard through the initiatory journey of southern Italy. With the dazzling Celeste Dalla Porta (Young Parthenope), Stefania Sandrelli (Adult Parthenope), Luisa Ranieri, Gary Oldman, Silvio Oorlando…
The Red Carpet of Marcello Mio
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