In our second Cannes film festival Film Weekly podcast special, Melancholia actor Stellan Skarsgard defends his collaborator, director Lars von Trier, who was banned from the festival due to his press conference jokes relating to nazism.
We also meet the star of one of the festival favourites. Bérénice Bejo stars as Peppy Miller in the black and white silent film The Artist which could take the Palm d'Or yet.
Guardian critic Xan Brooks and film writer Agnès Poirier join Jason to round up the festival so far and take a punt on which films will take the top prizes at this Sunday's award ceremony.
Finally, Jason meets Israeli director Joseph Cedar to discuss his competition film, Footnote. Cedar was Oscar nominated in 2007 for his war drama Beaufort but Footnote sees the director exchange pyrotechnics for pedantry in a novel comedy about rivalry among Talmud scholars.
