The level of coolness in the 250 GP class wavers once in a while and if you read the spin now, it's sort of populated by older riders trying to keep the pasture gate from closing behind them. Except Simon Turner, I guess.

However, do Superbike riders have their own art house movie at Cannes this year? WSC? Noooo. But AMA 250 riders do. Oh yes, they do.

Vincent Gallo both stars and directs the film "The Brown Bunny" this year at Cannes. The film's synopsis states that the plot is a California 250 rider returning from New Hampshire and mulling over an old girlfriend (who among us has not been there, eh?) along the way.

He tries to hook up with various women as he travels, but once he realizes that they want him, he abandons them. This does not sound like behavior of any rider I have known in near 20 years at this gig.

One of the promo images from the film shows a rider speeding along the Salt Flats, which is novel use of a 250, you've got to admit. The film also calls the 250 class Formula II, which actually was one of the half-dozen names the class has had in the last 30 years.

The dialog from the film on the Cannes site gives the impression this is not My Big, Fat Greek Wedding.

But, then, it can't possibly seem as long as the second race at Sears (aka The Race That Time Forgot)can it?

Will this art house film follow the script of many art house films and five minutes before the film ends, the characters discover they're actually brother and sister and they then decide to hang themselves and their illegally conceived children/genetic science experiments?

Unknown.