Editing Cannes Film Festival (section)

==Impact==
The festival has become an important showcase for [[cinema of Europe|European films]]. Jill Forbes and Sarah Street argue in ''European Cinema: An Introduction'' ({{ISBN|0333752104}}), that Cannes "became...extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality" (page 20).<ref name="European_Cinema">{{cite book |last1=Forbes |first1=Jill |last2=Street |first2=Sarah |year=2001 |title=European Cinema: An Introduction |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |location=London |isbn=0-333-75210-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/europeancinemain00jill}}</ref> Forbes and Street also point out that, along with other festivals such as the [[Venice Film Festival]] and [[Berlin International Film Festival]], Cannes offers an opportunity to determine a particular country's image of its cinema and generally foster the notion that European cinema is "art" cinema.<ref name="European_Cinema"/>

Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and to attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

=== Cannes Film Festival in fiction ===
Though most of the media attention the festival receives is journalistic in nature, the festival has been explored from the standpoint of fiction by novelists over the years.

[[Michael Grothaus]]' ''[[Epiphany Jones]]'' is a social satire about the festival and film industry and explores sex trafficking that occurs during the festival. The book was named one of the best Hollywood novels of all time by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://ew.com/books/25-irresistible-hollywood-novels/#epiphany-jones-by-michael-grothaus |title=The most irresistible Hollywood novels |work=EW.com |access-date=11 October 2018 |language=en |archive-date=20 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320104748/https://ew.com/books/25-irresistible-hollywood-novels/#epiphany-jones-by-michael-grothaus |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Iain Johnstone]]'s ''Cannes: The Novel'' is a dystopian tale about terrorists holding the festival hostage.

[[Paulo Coelho]]'s ''[[The Winner Stands Alone]] '' is also set at the Cannes Film Festival.

The culture and history of the festival has been covered in a number of non-fiction books.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cannesestate.se/en/cannes/film-festival-books/ |title=16 Books About Cannes Film Festival you Have to Read |date=6 July 2018 |work=Cannes Estate |access-date=11 October 2018 |archive-date=11 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172934/https://www.cannesestate.se/en/cannes/film-festival-books/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The festival has been used as the backdrop and setting of several films, including ''[[The Last Horror Film]]'' (1982), ''[[La cité de la peur]]'' (1994),  ''[[Festival in Cannes]]'' (2001), ''[[Femme Fatale (2002 film)|Femme Fatale]]'' (2002) and ''[[Mr. Bean's Holiday]]'' (2007); some of these were shot on location at the festival.