Festival
Like Me!
Posted by: ThirteenDamnDollars, September 15, 2005 01:34 AM
Annie Griffin
Wednesday September 14th, 3:15PM
Paramount
Festival follows the story of several participants in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. There's the two stand-up-comics who's stars are waning after too many years at the festival. The incredibly famous british comic and his long suffering personal manager, the radio host, the stary-eyed girl putting on her one-woman show, along with the priest putting on his, and New Brunswick's most popular experimental theater troupe.
But what this movie is really about is addiction, and the horrible sucking void of need at the core of every "funny" person. The driving black-hole that screams "like me! like me!" (as one character actually begs at one point during the film).
This movie is at turns hilarious and tragic.