Filled with absurdist humor, Woody Allen’s Rifkin's Festival blends unreal situations with interwoven tales of romance and heartache to create a loving tribute to the transformative power of film. Wallace Shawn stars as cinema devotee Mort Rifkin, who accompanies his publicist wife Sue (Gina Gershon) to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe (Louis Garrel), might be more than professional. Turned off by the lavish praise showered on Philippe’s film, which he considers banal, Mort becomes preoccupied with the cinema classics he once taught as a professor, by masters like Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, and Buñuel. Reflecting on the events of his life through the prism of those great movies, Mort finds renewed hope for his future.