A wide-ranging look at the Cannes Film Festival, "a utopian environment of fanatical cinephiles" who gather yearly to identify "trends in world cinema." Segments focus on glamorous personalities, filmmakers, press coverage, marketing and backstage tales. Included: comments by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Sydney Pollack, William Friedkin, Ron Howard and Oliver Stone. Produced and directed by author-film critic Richard Schickel.