Cannes film festival: Polanski and Biutiful people

At the Cannes film festival photocall for Palme d'Or contender Des Hommes et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men), French director Xavier Beauvois holds a T-shirt to show his support for Roman Polanski, who has been under house arrest in Switzerland since last December
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It appears Beauvois's actors have less weighty matters on their minds – Des Hommes et Des Dieux (Of God and Men) actor Lambert Wilson, who plays a Cistercian monk confronting fundamentalist violence in the film, kisses co-sar Sabrina Ouazani at a Cannes film festival photocall
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Lambert Wilson outs himself as a serial smacker as he plants a kiss on director Xavier Beauvois at the Cannes film festival photocall for Des Hommes et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men)
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At a slightly more buttoned-up photocall, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami and actors Juliette Binoche and William Shimell promote Copie Conforme (Certified Copy). The film is the first straight acting job for Shimell, better known in the opera world as a respected bass-baritone
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Javier Bardem and Alejandro González Iñárritu continue their fine bromance at the premiere of Biutiful at Cannes's Palais des Festivals
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Also on the red carpet at the premiere of Biutiful were Cannes jury members Alexandre Desplat and Benicio del Toro …
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… French artist Ben (left), who holds a banner with the slogan 'Our life is our film' …
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… 2009 jury president Isabelle Huppert and her successor Tim Burton …
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… Quentin Dupieux (second from left), aka Mr Oizo who gave the world Flat Eric, with an entourage publicising his new film, Rubber …
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… and the one and only Ursula Andress
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Elsewhere at the 63rd Cannes film festival, actor Emmanuelle Beart attends the 150th anniversary party for Chopard, the jewellers which produce the Palme d'Or trophy. However, her new film has not been selected for a screening at Cannes
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At the Cannes premiere of Outrage, actor-director Takeshi Kitano and producer Masayuki Mori trot out their best impressions of sober-suited salarymen …
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… but their guests feel no such need to restrain themselves
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In a galaxy far, far, away, Mark Hamill was young Luke Skywalker. Now, the Star Wars star is in Cannes to announce his new film, The Black Pearl, which he co-wrote and will direct
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Film & music … Mick Jagger gets together with Harvey Weinstein at a dinner at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes. Jagger – or his younger 1970s self, to be accurate – appears onscreen at the festival in Stones in Exile, Stephen Kijak's documentary about the making of the Rolling Stones' seminal Exile on Main St album
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On the Croisette, passersby walk past a billboard for Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black, at the 63rd Cannes film festival
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Designer Christian Louboutin is down at heels at a Cannes film festival fashion event at the Palm Beach Casino
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And the whirl of the 63rd Cannes film festival continues unabated
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