This is a fun film especially if you love the "backstage" genre. Everyone in it is good and it looks like they are having a lot of fun making it. Aimee ,best know in America for the 60's big hit "A Man & A Woman" is great as what she is-a older actress looking for a good role. Schell also play in type,but the best one in the film is Scacchi,who too many times plays the glamorous type, is great here playing a naive would- be director-and she is beautiful!!!!!.The whole thing takes place during a beautiful summer day at the Cannes Film Festival-with producers wheeling and dealing.It makes you wonder if all this is really how movies work and if it is-how any ever get made. Its real-thousands of extras who are just the regular people in the city,plus a few B-level actors playing walk-ons add to the effect The hand held camera is a little too much sometimes-but its no big deal. Sit back and relax and enjoy the acting,the script,the scenes of Cannes and the whole movie.