Livin' la lido loca … the 67th Venice film festival is underway

A statue of a lion near the Palazzo del Cinema Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Six angry men and a woman … this year's jury: Italian director Luca Guadagnino, French director Arnaud Desplechin, US film composer Danny Elfman, Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga, Lithuanian actor Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Quentin Tarantino and Italian director Gabriele Salvatores Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Black Swan opened the festival … the film stars Vincent Cassel and Natalie Portman, pictured here with director Darren Aronofsky Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Italian composer Armando Trovajoli receives the award for excellence in Italian culture from cabinet undersecretary Gianni Letta at the Cinema Palace before the Black Swan premiere Photograph: Claudio Onorati/EPA

Natalie Portman plays a deranged ballerina in Black Swan Photograph: PR

Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, US director Julian Schnabel and his daughter Stella arrive for the screening of Miral Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Naomi Campbell arrives for the premiere of Miral Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Miral stars Willem Dafoe and Vanessa Redgrave, alongside Hiam Abbas Photograph: PR

Actor Kenichi Matsuyama, director Tran Anh Hung and actors Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara arrive for the screening of Norwegian Wood Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP

Norwegian Wood Photograph: PR

A poster for the film Somewhere by director Sofia Coppola in front of the Palazzo del Cinema Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images

Somewhere Photograph: Imagenet

John Woo receives the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement from Venice film festival director Marco Muller, Hong Kong director Tsui Hark and president of the jury, Quentin Tarantino Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Andy Lau arrives for screening of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP

Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame Photograph: Imagenet

Li Bingbing at the premiere of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Michelle Williams at the premiere of Meek's Cutoff Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP

Shirley Henderson in Meek's Cutoff Photograph: Imagenet

Elodie Bouchez signs autographs at the Happy Few premiere Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters

Happy Few Photograph: Imagenet

Producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Ewa Piaskowska and director Jerzy Skolimowski at the Essential Killing premiere Photograph: Briquet Nicolas/Empics

Essential Killing Photograph: Imagenet

Film-maker Ascanio Celestini carries actor Luigi Fedele into the La Pecora Nera premiere Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

La Pecora Nera Photograph: Imagenet

Chilean director Pablo Larrain with his wife, Antonia Zegers, at the premiere for Post Mortem Photograph: CLAUDIO ONORATI/EPA

Post Mortem Photograph: Imagenet