Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is the festival opener. Here is the great man himself on set with two of his stars, Carla Bruni and Owen WilsonPhotograph: Dereck Jones/FilmMagicEbizo Ichikawa in Takashi Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, a 3D contender in the main competitionPhotograph: PRItaly's former Palme D'Or winner Nanni Moretti is in the running for the big prize again for Habemus PapamPhotograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Danish director Lars von Trier brings Melancholia to the competitionPhotograph: Francois Mori/APKirsten Dunst in MelancholiaPhotograph: PRSean Penn shows an interesting new look in Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be The PlacePhotograph: PRTerrence Malick's long-awaited The Tree of Life, featuring Brad Pitt, gets the nod for the main competitionPhotograph: PRTilda Swinton stars in the British Palme D'Or contender Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About KevinPhotograph: Nicole Rivelli/PRNa Hong-jin's The Yellow Sea is part of the selection for the festival's Un Certain Regard sidebarPhotograph: PRAs is Gerardo Naranjo's Miss BalaPhotograph: Eniac Mart nez Ulloa/PR
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