Festival

Jul 15, 2005

1h 47m

★ 5.8

Overview

'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

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Film4 Productions

UK Film Council

Festival Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Faith Myers

Lyndsey Marshal

Tommy O'Dwyer

Chris O'Dowd

Joan Gerard

Daniela Nardini

Sean Sullivan

Stephen Mangan

Nicky Romanowski

Lucy Punch

Petra Loewenberg

Raquel Cassidy

Brother Mike

Clive Russell

Micheline Menzies

Amelia Bullmore

Dina

Megan Dodds

Mary

Meredith MacNeill

Rick

Jonah Lotan

Dwight Swan

Richard Ayoade

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