Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned (2013) — watch online on iFILM — a documentary by James Toback, shot at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. No red carpet access, no prepared statements.

Toback and Alec Baldwin came to Cannes with one mission: find financing for their next picture. The film follows them through a string of rejections, picking up candid exchanges with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ryan Gosling, and Jessica Chastain along the way. What emerges is a frank portrait of how movies actually get made — the glamour is real, but so is the door closing in your face. Stream Seduced and Abandoned (2013) on iFILM.