One film I’ve added to my Cannes screening schedule is James Toback‘s Seduced and Abandoned, a documentary shot during the 65th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival described as a cinematic exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival and cinema art, money, glamor and death.
The film is guided by Toback and Alec Baldwin and features original portraits of Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Berenice Bejo, Diane Kruger and James Caan.
Seduced and Abandoned was recently acquired by HBO Films and I’m planning on seeing it this Sunday, May 19 and to prepare you for my review, a first look at the film has arrived online and can be viewed below. With HBO picking this one up ahead of its screening it has to mean it’s, at the very least, a decent watch.
