Festival in Cannes

We spend the whole time watching  a group of people (veteran actor, neophyte actress, successful producer, a chauffeur who wants to be a successful producer, etc.) as they search for happiness in life during the titular festival. The unsuccessful ones seek success, while the successful ones take it for granted and long for a happy partnered life and love. And there are a few gratuitous shots of billboards for Stigmata, Fight Club and Entrapment. But there is no humor and no satire à la Robert Altman. Only boring dialogue, which makes sense only in the last third of the film, when the characters start to take off their masks. Very weak. (07/09/2002)