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Festival In Cannes (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 19

One of Jaglom's better films, Festival in Cannes is an enjoyable insider's take on the movie industry.

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 8

One of Jaglom's better films, Festival in Cannes is an enjoyable insider's take on the movie industry.

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The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who has written a screenplay that she'd like to direct, and she arrives a the Cannes Film Festival to look for investors. Alice has her eyes on veteran star Millie Marquand (Anouk Aimee) to play the lead,

PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Henry Jaglom

Written By: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom

In Theaters: Mar 8, 2002 Wide

On DVD: Sep 24, 2002

Box Office:$41.0k

Paramount Classics

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Critic Reviews for Festival In Cannes

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In the end, we don't see enough of Cannes and maybe too much of Kaz. But you have to accept or reject Jaglom as you might a walk on the Croisette, taking the bitter with the sweet.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

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A picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.

July 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

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At its best ... Festival in Cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in Cannes.

April 25, 2002 Comment

Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

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A witty, trenchant, wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking.

April 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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One of [Jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

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The locale ... remains far more interesting than the story at hand.

March 29, 2002 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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should be edited down to a 5-minute promotional trailer

July 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews Source: Old School Reviews

Those looking for a light and decidedly untraditional comedy will find some smart and witty exchanges within; those who consider Adam Sandler an underrated genius may be bored stiff.

December 28, 2002 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Scott Weinberg

Apollo Guide

Henry Jaglom's lighthearted satire of Hollywood wheeler-dealers goes as far as the director is willing to bite...

October 9, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This is impressively carried off by a fine cast, particularly the luminous Aimee and Greta Scacchi whose career has intriguing parallels with those of the character she plays.

July 26, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Urban Cinefile

Jaglom ... put[s] the audience in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters

July 26, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The seaside splendor and shallow, beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going.

July 1, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

The cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big ... and the setting remains indistinct.

May 30, 2002 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Jaglom's latest is his most mature work to date, one with fresh insights into the people who decide what we experience at our cineplexes.

April 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly

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William A. Sievert

Orlando Weekly

May be Jaglom at his most self-serving and self-righteous.

April 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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A behind-the-scenes look at the madness that is Cannes, the film follows several people who are in town to make the deal that will keep their careers afloat. There is an actress, turned script writer (Gretchen Scachi) trying to sell her script. There is the aging actress (Anouk Aimee) who hasn't had a leading role in

August 18, 2010

Mark Abell

Super Reviewer

[left]The scenes behind the scenes. [/left] Festival in Cannes is so far out I can hardly describe it, except that it's set in the Cannes Festival of 1999.

June 10, 2006