Notre-Dame de la Croisette

A young woman, Mademoiselle Betty, visiting Cannes during the 1981 film festival, tries to access to screenings and press conferences, while having no accreditation. She nevertheless manages to assist the press conference for the documentary She Dances Alone about Kyra Nijinski, daughter of the famous dancer, and for The Postman Always Rings Twice, in presence of the actors Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, and director Bob Rafelson, whom she meets again in her hotel lift. The film goes straight into the life of the festival, as all these anonymous figures that pass through it, a world out of the world (that the character watches on television, in her hotel room) where nobody seems to recognise the (real) actress Bulle Ogier in this slightly naive visitor…