Festival In Cannes (2001)
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65% of critics liked it
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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… More 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, but while Millie loves the script, she's been offered a better-paying supporting role in an upcoming Tom Hanks project. Meanwhile, Millie's former husband Viktor Kovner (Maximilian Schell) is a director fallen on hard times who is trying to scare up financing for his own film. Producer Rick Yorkin (Ron Silver) wouldn't mind leaving Millie in the lurch if it meant landing Alice for his next project. Kaz (Zack Norman) is a less-than-scrupulous producer hoping to put some sort of package deal together. And Blue (Jenny Gabrielle) is a young woman whose shoestring budget independent film has become an unexpected smash hit. Shot in the midst of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Festival In Cannes features cameos from such stars as Jeff Goldblum, Holly Hunter, Faye Dunnaway, and William Shatner. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Henry Jaglom
- Written By
- Henry Jaglom, Victoria Foyt
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Mar 8, 2002 Limited
- Studio
- Paramount Classics
Critic Reviews
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
A picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
At its best ... Festival in Cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in Cannes.
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Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
A witty, trenchant, wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
One of [Jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love.
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Cast
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Jenny Gabrielle
as Blue
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Greta Scacchi
as Alice Palmer
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Kim Kolarich
as Libby
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Rachel Bailit
as Nikki
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Zack Norman
as Kaz Naiman
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Pamela Shaw
as Millie's Agent
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Anouk Aimée
as Millie Marquand
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Vernon Dobtcheff
as Millie's Escort
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Christian Rallo
as Fan in Crowd
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Ron Silver
as Rick Yorkin
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Alex Craig Mann
as Barry
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Maximilian Schell
as Viktor Kovner
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Camilla Campanale
as Gina
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Marya Kazakova
as TV Interviewer
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Peter Bogdanovich
as Milo
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Louise Stratten
as Milo's Girlfriend
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Robert Shaye
as Bert Shuster
- J. C. Irondelle
- William Shatner
- Faye Dunaway
- Liam Dunaway O'Neill
- John Cruikshank
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Jeff Goldblum
as Himself
- Holly Hunter
- Michael White (I)
- Maximillian Schell
