Schmoozing with the A-list in Cannes

It's the mega-yachts that are grabbing all the attention at the film festival.

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The Cannes Film Festival may be in full swing, but it's not the films that people are paying most attention to. Instead, "the plutocrats are squaring up to one another with some serious luxury yacht length", says Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian's film critic. Naturally, in the battle of the boats, "Roman Abramovich's Eclipse, at 533ft, is expected to win". However, "size isn't everything, so Lady Beatrice, the Barclay Brothers' bijou 200-footer, might gain some approving nods among the seaborne Croesus community". Bradshaw was once invited onboard a mega-yacht at a previous festival, he says, but the experience made him feel like a "tenant on the estate, allowed to attend Christmas Eve drinks at Downton Abbey".

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