Cannes 2011: Day seven – in pictures

Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson hope their comedy jig might distract attention away from The Beaver Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters

While Mel and Jodie might be trying to avoid the rodent in the room, Adriana Karembeu hopes to attract the attention of the rather elusive Beaver by dressing as something pink and furry ... Photograph: Tony Barson/WireImage

... but she has competition from Tiziana Rocca who hopes to lure the Beaver by dressing as a cool, clear freshwater river ... Photograph: Tony Barson/WireImage

... in competition with model Bar Refaeli, also in blue, the colour of the Beaver's watery paradise Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Oh who will win his heart? The Swiss regional beauty pageant winners arrive in force, their silvery maxidresses like a shimmering canal ... Photograph: Christophe Karaba/EPA

Against this lot, model Doutzen Kroes simply doesn't stand a chance ... Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

But wait! What is this? Actor Jean Rochefort reveals what really happens inside the beaver puppet. It's like finding out there's no Santa Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/REUTERS

Actor Peter Fonda knew all along Photograph: Francois Mori/AP

But Serbian tennis player, Novak Djokovic, must quickly distract his girlfriend Jelena Ristic before she finds out ... Photograph: Christophe Karaba/EPA

... and the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki must also be distracted by her husband, Khaled Mouzannar, from finding out the truth Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

This man is devastated. It cannot be! A. Glove. Puppet? He is trying to throw himself off the steps ... Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

Naomi Campbell doesn't care. Take your brown furry puppet, her smile says, I have billionaire tycoon Vladimir Doronin Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA

Away from the Beaver shenanigans, French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is kissed by his wife Barbara Gandolfi on the red carpet before a ceremony honouring the actor's five decades in film Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

The Gout brothers, Everardo and Leopoldo, scrap over the credits for their film Dias De Gracia (Days of Grace) Photograph: Dominique Charriau/WireImage

Oh those cheeky chappies! Dias de Gracias actors Tenoch Huerta, Dolores Heredia and Vikram Chatwal know it's just a game for the cameras Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

And someone known as Little Bob performs for the red carpet cameras next to Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki before the screening of Le Havre Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

But time to be serious now. Muslim women protest against France's niqab ban in front of the festival palace Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters