FROM 7 Apr
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Dean Fleischer-Camp
Nominations: Baftas 1; Oscars 1
Marcel offers 90 minutes of poignant whimsy, all of it inducing genuine laughter and tears. If it doesn’t move you, then perhaps nothing will.
It tells of a director, Mitya, who suddenly abandons the set of a TV series. In the grip of a midlife crisis, he discusses his lot with the shade of Marcello Mastroianni.
He needs to know the answer to a crucial question: what kind of a director does he wish to be? Inevitably, chaos reigns. Inevitably, too, audiences will be reminded by its quirkiness, its drollery and its surrealistic tone of vintage Woody Allen. Often very funny!