Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 09/24/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
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, All Movie Guide
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