Seduced and Abandoned
BEYOND THE GLAMOUR OF CANNES LIES THE NAKED TRUTH OF MOVIEMAKING.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: TV-MA
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: HBO Archive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alec Baldwin | |
Featured: | Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Martin Scorsese, Diane Kruger, James Caan, Neve Campbell, Francis Ford Coppola, Bérénice Bejo, Roman Polanski, Jeremy Thomas & Bernardo Bertolucci | |
Directed by | James Toback | |
Screenwriting by | James Toback | |
Composition by | Nicholas Pike | |
Produced by | Alec Baldwin, Michael Mailer & James Toback |
Entertainment Reviews:
84%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 43
Rating: 4/5 --
Baldwin and Toback make a snappy comic duo, and half of their talks with a line-up of luminaries focus on the art of filmmaking rather than the business.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Jolly good fun, even if it doesn't exactly manage to fulfil its wonky remit.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 3/5 --
It's funny stuff, yet the real nuggets here are when [Alec] Baldwin defaults to standard doco-mode and asks an impressive range of people...about the harsh realities of working in the world's most expensive entertainment artform.
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3AW
Rating: 3/5 --
The film is at its very best when Baldwin informally cross-examines respected names such as Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci, James Caan and Jessica Chastain.
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Herald Sun (Australia)
Rating: 3/5 --
Droll, watchable, wittily sobering.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Hugely self-indulgent and at times just plainly ridiculous, the most eye-opening aspect of Seduced and Abandoned is the very level of talent wrangled into contributing.
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CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a spikily funny, endlessly enlightening watch.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Description by OLDIES.com:
For ten days in May 2012, director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin worked their way through the Cannes Film Festival in an attempt to secure financing for a new film, a political-erotic Middle Eastern drama inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. As they dashed around Cannes, hopeful against all odds to raise an eight-figure sum, Toback filmed the hilarious and revealing proceedings that comprise this documentary: from pitches to billionaires, studio moguls, producers and international sales financiers, to intimate encounters with major movie stars and iconic directors whose passion for movies proves it's still possible to transcend all the madness. Seduced and Abandoned captures the tug-of-war between the eternal dream of creating pure art, and the bracing reality of modern movie commerce. Ultimately, the film turns the camera back on those who still can't resist the devilish and beautiful temptations of a love affair with cinema, despite the outrageous odds against success. As the film builds to its climax, there's no doubt that Toback and Baldwin remain hopelessly seduced -- but will they be abandoned?
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