Festival in Cannes

A largely improvised satirical feature shot against the background of the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. One of the protagonists is actress Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) who has written a script for an independent film and, with her agent, is looking for money at the festival to make it. Her smooth ‘producer’ Kaz Norman persuades her to ask the ageing yet still famous actress Millie Marquand (Anouk Aimée) to play the lead, because then the money would roll. Marquand does indeed turn out to be charmed by the script, but is also on the hit list of the powerful producer Rick Yorkin (Ron Silver). For him, she is the key to a deal worth millions for a Tom Hanks film. When the once famous director Viktor Kovner and exhusband of Marquand (Maximilian Schell), appears on the scene, the film deal gets more and more entertaining. Kovner turns out still to have a major influence on Marquand and tries to keep her out of Yorkin’s hands.Alongside the many others, there is also a nice cameo by Peter Bogdanovich in Festival in Cannes. For a film that was shot at a film festival in full swing, with many scenes improvised on the spot, it is surprisingly calm and coherent film, to which the beautiful Mediterranean locations around the luxurious Hotel du Cap make a major contribution.