Festival

'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

Director: Annie Griffin

Cast: Lyndsey Marshal, Chris O'Dowd, Daniela Nardini, Stephen Mangan, Lucy Punch, Raquel Cassidy, Clive Russell, Amelia Bullmore

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.