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Festival

Festival

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 15, 2005

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

62%

Original Title

Festival

Director

Annie Griffin

Description

'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house