Nick Nolte's Strange Documentary: The Actors Interrogates Himself

CANNES, France -- Celebrity interviews abound at the Cannes Film Festival: Penelope Cruz chatting on the beach, Harrison Ford talking near the red carpet, Angelina Jolie conversing in a swank hotel. But none of the Cannes dialogues is as strange as Nick Nolte's: He's actually interrogating himself in a small room. Screening at the Cannes sales market on Thursday and Friday, "Nick Nolte: No Exit" is an almost existential documentary, part self-celebratory profile, part surreal question-and-answer session. While the film does include a range of friends and collaborators talking about the "Affliction" and "Prince of Tides" star's acting -- Ben Stiller and Jacqueline Bisset among them -- its center focuses on Nolte asking himself (and usually answering) his own queries. At one point early in "No Exit," the 67-year-old actor poses a question to himself about working in the theater, only to growl out the reply, "That's kind of a silly question to ask." Later, the multi-divorced Nolte asks, "How ... (link)