Deck-chair attendant Jim, who lives in the boring fictional small town of Gormleigh-on-Sea, has a brain-wave–he persuades the Mayor to host a film festival and imports a French movie siren so that the Gormleigh Holiday Resort can gain some much needed tourist interest.Ken Russell, an iconoclast of British cinema, concocted this satirical look at celebrity culture amidst a seaside town’s desperate attempt at a film festival. Arriving 5 years after the start of the French New Wave, this anarchic comedy provides Britain’s answer to the nouvelle vague’s equation.