English title: Hail the Artist.
The life of a middle-aged actor who can't get big parts. He scrapes a living off bit parts, dubbings, stage humor shows, etc. His love life is not all that simple either: he is separated from his wife and lives with his new girlfriend, but he keeps seeing both, and flirting with others as well. He has a long-time friend and colleague who decides to quit acting.
A worthy film, which mostly succeeds at showing the "dark side" of the acting profession. It is also a character study, and fairly successfull at that too. I have read somewhere (probably from an Internet Movie Database user) that director Robert specializes in men who will not grow up. That is right on the money, and this film fits in perfectly in that definition. But, while elsewhere he expresses himself through comedy, here he opts for drama -- one that does not exclude the comic element (just as his comedies do not exclude the dramatic one).
Rating: 60
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