IIFF alumnus Brandon Hull (and this year’s workshop Behind the Green Screen), will present and discuss Cannes: All Access, a roundly entertaining tribute to the grande dame of film festivals that, in the hands of Time critic Richard Schickel, also becomes an expression of purest movie love. A broad array of interview subjects regard the event with varying degrees of awe, affection and mild exasperation — making this a solid primer for the uninitiated and, for Cannes veterans, an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

But while there's pleasure to be had in mocking the ritualized pomp and pretension of Cannes, the documentary deepens into a brisk but detailed history lesson that puts both the festival and the films themselves in context. Schickel's approach brims above all with love for the films and directors under discussion.

Unfolding breathlessly in chapters with cheeky film-referential titles (one of which, appropriately enough, is "Breathless"), the one-thing-after-another pace is true to the too-muchness — and the sensory overload — of the Cannes film festival itself.