The verisimilitude of the dialogue, the intelligence of the story, the casting, the attention to real things, the music, the complicated emotional life, the wit, the awful truth -- these are givens in any Henry Jaglom movie. It's all there in the filmmaker's latest entry, Festival In Cannes.
Set during the actual Cannes festival of 2000, Festival In Cannes uses the movie business as a metaphor for love relationships -- or possibly vice-versa. Jaglom whisks you to the annual cinema outing and bun fight at Cannes, a chaotic site where the usual lying, cheating, deal-making, sucking-up and backstabbing of the film industry go into overdrive.
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