Festival in Cannes
Paramount Classics | Release Date: March 8, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
13
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A giddy comic fantasy, full of romance, chicanery and beguiling, sophisticated players.
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
One of the season's most watchable treats. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Wry and sometime bitter movie about love. Read full review
70
VarietyScott Foundas
Jaglom's quickest and funniest picture in years and the most accessible. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeLoren King
Many of the story lines offer only superficial insight into the characters; Silver's rich but unhappy mogul has been done far too many times. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
It isn't a good movie, but it is diverting, a showcase for Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver, and a peephole on behind-the-scenes moves. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Festival in Cannes is definitely Jaglomesque, but can't get that tricky balance right -- the result is a picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Makes compromises itself, but only because of its small budget and its director's mixed dark-and-rosy vision, at once cynical and sentimental. Yet at least it has a vision -- of both life and cinema. Read full review
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