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. She now wears a hat and glasses, calls herself Marcello, dresses like him and wants to be seen as “an actor”. “She’s like a sleepwalker, you mustn’t wake her up suddenly”, says her mother, while her friends and family become exasperated. With the dazzling Celeste Dalla Porta (Young Parthenope), Stefania Sandrelli (Adult Parthenope), Luisa Ranieri, Gary Oldman, Silvio Oorlando…www.festival-cannes.comThe Red Carpet of Marcello MioClick to enlarge – ©YesICannes.com – All rights reserved