Cannes hosts the film festival Mr. Bean attends in Mr. Bean’s Holiday.
The 2007 film uses the Cannes Film Festival as its destination and climax. Mr. Bean begins the story in England, travels through France and becomes involved in a series of increasingly complicated events while trying to reunite Stepan with his father.
Cannes is a city on the French Riviera and is internationally associated with the annual Cannes Film Festival. The film uses that real-world setting for comedy, placing Bean’s innocent misunderstandings alongside celebrities, filmmakers and the publicity surrounding a major cinema event.
The destination is sometimes confused with Paris because much of the journey takes place in France, or with Nice because both cities are on the French Riviera. The relevant festival city in the film is Cannes.