Rachel Bailit Movies
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
- Starring:
- Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, (more)
- 1997
Brothers Andrew (camera) and Peter Turman (script, direction) teamed for this look at mix-and-match relationships. Novelist wannabe Martin (Philip Tanzini) isn't happy in his editing job with a publisher, and the situation worsens when his girlfriend Anna (Lola Glaudini) leaves him for coffeehouse musician Todd (Miles O'Connor). Martin quickly moves along to woo winsome Jamie (Robin McKee), and life is good again. When Anna turns up and wants Martin back, the real problems begin. Shown at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Philip Tanzini, Lola Glaudini, (more)
- 1994
Racketeer Paul Avensino (Tony LoBianco) buys a controlling interest in a popular restaurant, but he finds that he exercises no control over the establishment's egotistical chef Bernard Bonelli (John Saxon). Shortly after a confrontation between the two men, Bonelli is murdered--and lest anyone suspect Avensino of the crime, he turns up dead as well. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) becomes involved in the case when her friend Lorna (Heidi Swedberg), host of a TV cooking show, is charged with one of the murders. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
