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Festival in Cannes

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:11

Rotten:8

Average Rating:5.9/10

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

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief strong language

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 8, 2002 Limited

Box Office: $41,006

Synopsis: Director Henry Jaglom presents an insider's look at the Cannes Film Festival with his 13th feature, a fictional piece with a documentary style and feeling. Set at the 1999 festival in the sunny,... Director Henry Jaglom presents an insider's look at the Cannes Film Festival with his 13th feature, a fictional piece with a documentary style and feeling. Set at the 1999 festival in the sunny, glamorous gleam of the French Riviera and the hub of celebrity and fame at the Hotel de Cannes, the film's atmosphere is an essential element of understanding its characters. Drunk with excitement, hope, and deal-making glitz, a small group of filmmakers and stars wade through the day-to-day chaos of the event. Former actress Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) has written a beautiful screenplay for an independent film about an older woman. Seeking funding and a leading actress, Alice meets Kaz (Zach Norman), a sleazy and overbearing financier who makes her skin crawl, but promises her $3 million. She also meets the reserved, graceful, and brilliantly coy actress Millie Marquand (Anouk Aimee), who falls in love with the screenplay. But Millie is being heavily recruited by flashy producer Rick Yorkan (Ron Silver), who promises her a fantastic financial reward to play a small cameo in a Hollywood Tom Hanks film. Meanwhile, Millie's estranged husband, Viktor (Maximilian Schell), a womanizing director, is gallivanting around the festival trying to advocate the value of art films as compared to Hollywood studio films, while also searching for the perfect deal regardless of artistry. A dizzying portrait of a world where everyone has a hidden agenda and a dozen handy lies tucked up their sleeves, FESTIVAL IN CANNES paints a cynical, but perhaps honest, portrait of the film industry. [More]

Starring: Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver

Starring: Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver, Zack Norman, Peter Bogdanovich, Jenny Gabrielle, William Shatner

Director: Henry Jaglom

Director: Henry Jaglom
Screenwriter: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
Producer: John Goldstone, Judith Wolinsky
Composer: Gaili Schoen
Studio: Paramount Classics

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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
07/20/02
Michael Wilmington
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Chicago Tribune
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A picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/12/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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One of [Jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love.

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04/12/02
Mick LaSalle
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04/05/02
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The locale ... remains far more interesting than the story at hand.

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03/29/02
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Jaglom makes some deft connections between personal and businesslike forms of seduction.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
03/29/02
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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A rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel.

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03/29/02
Loren King
Loren King
Boston Globe
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Offers a wonderfully entertaining look at the veterans, neophytes, phonies, truth seekers, profiteers and artists who populate the movie industry.

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03/22/02
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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Like most of Jaglom's films, some of it is honestly affecting, but more of it seems contrived and secondhand.

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03/22/02
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Does just fine until it collapses into the equivalent of a group hug down the stretch.

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03/21/02
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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It isn't a good movie, but it is diverting, a showcase for Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver, and a peephole on behind-the-scenes moves.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
03/21/02
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Daffy, engrossing, enlightening and entertaining.

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03/13/02
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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You've got the most percussive navel-gazer in independent film bringing together such type-A personalities as Zack Norman and Ron Silver, and then having them toot their trombones at each other for the better part of 90 minutes.

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03/08/02
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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It's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the Cannes Film Festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere.

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03/08/02
Jonathan Foreman
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New York Post
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A giddy comic fantasy, full of romance, chicanery and beguiling, sophisticated players.

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03/08/02
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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If Festival in Cannes nails hard- boiled Hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy, much about the film, including some of its casting, is frustratingly unconvincing.

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03/07/02
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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It thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world dichotomy that [Jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in Venice/Venice.

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03/05/02
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