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Festival is a British film of genre Drama with Lyndsey Marshal
Festival (2005)
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Add to a movie listFestival is a 2005 British black comedy film about a number of people at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe directed by Annie Griffin. The general shots of the festival were filmed during the 2004 event.
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Festival est une comédie noire qui se déroule en marge du festival annuel d'Édimbourg : le Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Le film se concentre autour de la projection d'une comédie à gros budget, qui sera primée au Festival, dans l'une des plus petites salles du Festival. Plusieurs histoires s'entremêlent alors incluant la relation entre une célébrité narcissique britannique et son assistante qui n'arrête pas de se plaindre, une actrice débutant au festival avec un one-woman show sur Dorothy Wordsworth et sur une riche mais dépressive femme mariée.Actors
Lyndsey Marshal
(Faith Myers)
Chris O'Dowd
(Tommy O'Dwyer)
Stephen Mangan
(Sean Sullivan)
Megan Dodds
(Dina)
Clive Russell
(Brother Mike)
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