Average Rating: 6.1/10
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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,
Mar 8, 2002 Wide
Sep 24, 2002
$41.0k
Paramount Classics
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (19) | DVD (1)
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.
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.
One of [Jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love.
The locale ... remains far more interesting than the story at hand.
should be edited down to a 5-minute promotional trailer
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
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.
May be Jaglom at his most self-serving and self-righteous.
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, 2010Super 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.
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