Chiara Mastroianni channels her father Marcello in 'Marcello Mio'

Chiara Mastroianni stars as her own father, the legendary Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, in the film 'Marcello Mio', directed by Christophe Honoré. The movie premiered in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and arrives in Italian theaters on May 23, distributed by Lucky Red. It marks the second collaboration between Chiara Mastroianni and Honoré after 'Chambre 212' (2019). Shot in Paris, Rome, and the seaside town of Formia, the film features an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve (Chiara's mother), Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Biolay, Nicole Garcia, and Stefania Sandrelli, all playing semi-fictionalized versions of themselves. Honoré conceived the project as a portrait of his favorite French actress during her ordinary, non-working moments—the 95% of an actor's life spent off-set. He noted that Chiara Mastroianni is unique because her private and cinematic lives blur, given her famous parents. The film explores the boundary between reality and fiction, where 'what is false becomes real and the real leads to the false.'