Rifkin's Festival

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Gina Gershon, Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, and Louis Garrel in Rifkin's Festival (2020)

A married American couple go to the San Sebastian Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies.

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Un couple américain marié se rend au Festival de Saint-Sébastien et se laisse emporter par la magie de l'événement, la beauté et le charme de la ville et la fantaisie du cinéma.Un couple américain marié se rend au Festival de Saint-Sébastien et se laisse emporter par la magie de l'événement, la beauté et le charme de la ville et la fantaisie du cinéma.Un couple américain marié se rend au Festival de Saint-Sébastien et se laisse emporter par la magie de l'événement, la beauté et le charme de la ville et la fantaisie du cinéma.

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
The scene in which Ingmar Bergman's Le Septième Sceau (1957) chess game was recreated was filmed on the same beach where the Dragonstone landing of Game of Thrones (2011) was filmed. Christoph Waltz, dressed in a heavy black robe withstood high temperatures in the sun (40 degrees Celsius) on the hottest day of the last half century in the area.

Gaffes
During the game of chess played against Death, the table appears incorrectly rotated. According to the rules of chess, the right square on the bottom row of each player should be white. Both players should know better than to make this mistake. Interestingly, the same mistake appears in the original movie Le Septième Sceau (1957) by Ingmar Bergman..

Citations
Mort Rifkin: Nobody wants to die. Not even for love.
Jo Rojas: You wouldn't die for love?
Mort Rifkin: I'd frankly prefer not to die for anything. And that includes sickness, old age or choking on a bagel.

Connexions
Features À bout de souffle (1960)

Bandes originales
San Sebastián
Composed by Stephane Wrembel
Performed by Stephane Wrembel, Thor Jensen, Josh Kaye, Ari Folman-Cohen, Nick Anderson, Scott Kettner, Adrien Chevalier, Nick Driscoll & David Langlois

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And February Is a Short Month

Possibly more clever than outrightly funny, Woody Allen's charming RIFKIN'S FESTIVAL stars Wallace Shawn as a geeky film studies teacher who's attending the San Sebastian Film Festival with his wife (Gina Gershon), who's a publicist. As in his STARDUST MEMORIES, Allen shows he has little interest in box office, press conferences, fake glitz, and the self-anointed.

While Shawn trudges around the festival which promotes, in his opinion, garbage, he re-casts the situations in which he finds himself in scenes from his favorite films (but with the actors in this film). So we see these 4:3 B&W inserts of films by Truffaut, Bergman, Bunuel, Godard, Fellini, and a funny CITIZEN KANE bit.

Oy vey! Not as star studded as in days of yore, but some familiar faces show up, including Christoph Waltz as Death, Steve Guttenberg and Tammy Blanchard as Rifkin's brother and his wife, Richard Kind as Rifkin's father. We also get Elena Anaya as the doctor, Louis Garrel as the "star," and Douglas McGrath as Gil.

And Wallace Shawn does well as Woody's alter-ego, but he can't deliver a line or a joke with Woody's aplomb.