Want to feel like you're at Cannes? Watch these 8 films set at the festival

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Although quite a few movies have taken place against the whirl of the Cannes Film Festival, only a handful have been shot within sanctioned festival spaces — often because of artistic, logistical and financial constraints.Most films have instead relied on resourceful camerawork, creative license and shrewd editing to bring an authentic, you-are-there quality to footage lensed mainly in and around Cannes, including iconic festival exteriors and the attendant bustle.Meanwhile, some productions have chosen to re-create their “official” festival scenes somewhere else entirely.

Case in point: Barry Levinson’s 2008 Tinseltown satire “What Just Happened,” which saw Hollywood’s former Kodak Theatre (now the Dolby Theatre) and the Cal State Northridge campus doubling for the film’s pivotal Cannes premiere sequence.Let’s flash back to an array of movies set at the festival, and the mix of approaches taken to capture their Cannes-centric moments.This frothy tale of an idealistic American filmmaker (Keith Carradine) who falls for the wife (Monica Vitti) of a powerful Italian producer (Raf Vallone) at the Cannes Film Festival was directed by Michael Ritchie (“The Candidate,” “The Bad News Bears”) from a screenplay by Walter Bernstein and Don Petersen.Ritchie first dispatched a French film crew to shoot second-unit, documentary-style footage at the 1978 festival.

Principal photography commenced later that year in Cannes, Nice and the Côte d’Azur, and re-created the festival atmosphere.Unfortunately, the film received uneven reviews and limited theatrical play.Director/co-writer David Winters’ low-budget slasher movie was shot guerrilla-style — initially without permits — across the 1981 festival, using its real-time commotion, glitz and key locales as a vivid backdrop.

The grisly picture involving a New York cabbie (Joe Spinell) with filmmaking delusions a...