COMING ATTRACTIONS

This year’s 41st Cannes Film Festival may have come and gone, but its hubbub has been preserved in a film that brings into comic focus the cinema’s most frenzied annual shindig. “It’s taken 40 years for the image and notoriety of Cannes to catch up with itself so you can do a satire about it,� said Walter Robin, producer of “Starlets,� a $4-million movie that started shooting at this year’s fest. The movie, which will resume filming in southern Europe at the end of September, stars Tony Curtis as Sidney F. Berko, the founder and chairman of a fictional film company known as Important Pictures (and based, Berko said, “on every mogul there ever was�) who flies to Cannes to sponsor an “International New Star of the Year Contest� at the annual confab. John Hurt, in a rare comic appearance, co-stars as the Soviet Nikita Vladimirov, a KGB agent and former actor who arrives in Cannes to accompany Miss Moscow in Berko’s talent competition. “Starlets� is scheduled to have its world premiere during next year’s festival.