Festival in Cannes (2002)
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver, Zack Norman
Screenwriter: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
Producer: John Goldstone, Judith Wolinsky
Composer: Gaili Schoen
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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.
Henry Jaglom's lighthearted satire of Hollywood wheeler-dealers goes as far as the director is willing to bite...
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.
Jaglom ... put[s] the audience in the privileged position of eavesdropping on his characters
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.
A picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.
The seaside splendor and shallow, beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going.
The cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big ... and the setting remains indistinct.
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.
At its best ... Festival in Cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in Cannes.
A witty, trenchant, wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking.
Jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar.


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