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 Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Valery Hache/guardian.co.uk 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) Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Loic Venance/guardian.co.uk Javier Bardem and Alejandro González Iñárritu continue their fine bromance at the premiere of Biutiful at Cannes's Palais des Festivals Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk Also on the red carpet at the premiere of Biutiful were Cannes jury members Alexandre Desplat and Benicio del Toro … Photograph: Christophe Karaba/EPA Photograph: Christophe Karaba/guardian.co.uk … French artist Ben (left), who holds a banner with the slogan 'Our life is our film' … Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Valery Hache/guardian.co.uk … 2009 jury president Isabelle Huppert and her successor Tim Burton … Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP Photograph: Matt Sayles/guardian.co.uk … Quentin Dupieux (second from left), aka Mr Oizo who gave the world Flat Eric, with an entourage publicising his new film, Rubber … Photograph: Picture Perfect/Rex Features Photograph: Picture Perfect/guardian.co.uk … and the one and only Ursula Andress Photograph: Picture Perfect/Rex Features Photograph: Picture Perfect/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP Photograph: Matt Sayles/guardian.co.uk At the Cannes premiere of Outrage, actor-director Takeshi Kitano and producer Masayuki Mori trot out their best impressions of sober-suited salarymen … Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/guardian.co.uk … but their guests feel no such need to restrain themselves Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Valery Hache/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Ian West/PA Photograph: Ian West/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images Photograph: Dave M Benett/guardian.co.uk On the Croisette, passersby walk past a billboard for Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black, at the 63rd Cannes film festival Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters Photograph: Christian Hartmann/guardian.co.uk Designer Christian Louboutin is down at heels at a Cannes film festival fashion event at the Palm Beach Casino Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk And the whirl of the 63rd Cannes film festival continues unabated Photograph: Tony Barson/Getty Images Photograph: Tony Barson/guardian.co.uk