We would have loved to see on the Croisette
Official Competition
, Argentinians Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat.
Their satire of cinema and the star system, with a brilliant Antonio Banderas as an actor with a hypertrophied ego and an unleashed Penélope Cruz as a perverse director, would have held up an ideal mirror to the Cannes circus.
The film was in the running for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, not bad either, but below the Côte d'Azur vanity fair.
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