Cast members at screening of film "La Princesse de Montpensier"
Cast members pose at photocall for film "L'autre Monde"
Celebs pose during a photocall for the film "Countdown to zero" by Director Lucy Walker at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2010.
Actress Pilar Lopez holds a news conference for the film "O estranho caso de Angelica" at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival May 13, 2010.
Some of the leading directors at this year's Cannes film festival have signed a petition urging Swiss authorities to reject a U.S. request to extradite Roman Polanski over a decades-old sex charge.
Blanchett and Crowe attend a news conference for the film "Robin Hood".
Two leading figures of China's young generation of directors will compete in the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, which opened on Wednesday.
This year's lineup at the Cannes Film Festival is leaner and less star-studded than usual, but you wouldn't know that from Wednesday's high-glamour opening ceremony.
Cate Blanchett has worn a gown by late British designer Alexander McQueen to the opening ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival.
The Cannes film festival opened on Wednesday with the world premiere of "Robin Hood," Ridley Scott's epic version that seeks to show how the hero of legend becomes an outlaw robbing the rich to feed the poor.
Action-packed adventure "Robin Hood" gets the 2010 Cannes film festival underway on Wednesday, kicking off 11 days of movie mayhem on the French Riviera.