It wants to be a romp AND a lofty meditation on love and art and illusion. But it's a tale of fake magic with no real magic.
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Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival When you consider all the care and taste and politics and planning that go into the yearly execution of the Cannes Film Festival, you’d think that coming up with a tasty and satisfying opening-night film — a movie that delights, or at least pleases, the festival audience, stoking its appetite for the treasures to come — would not require the French equivalent of rocket science. The opening-night selection needn’t be the best film in the festival; it hardly needs to be a major film. But surely it should be an inviting one.
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