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Some of my photos from the 2012 Cannes Festival:

Sarah Gadon, star of 'Cosmopolis' and 'Antiviral'

Brad Pitt of 'Killing Them Softly'

Alec Baldwin with fiancée Hilaria Thomas

Marion Cotillard from 'Rust and Bone'

Robert Pattinson of 'Cosmopolis'

Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain of 'Lawless'

Jury members Diane Kruger and Jean-Paul Gauthier

Viggo Mortensen, Montreal Canadiens fan, Kirsten Dunst and the 'On the Road' cast

NIcole Kidman of 'The Paperboy'

Cannes competition jury member Ewan McGregor obliges his fans

Zac Efron of 'The Paperboy'

John Cusack of 'The Paperboy', lost in translation

'Cosmopolis' star Emily Hampshire receives the inaugural Birks Diamond Award, with director David Cronenberg

Kristen Stewart of 'On the Road'

Reese Witherspoon of 'Mud'

Cannes mannequin

Mick Jagger portrait, in a gallery of paintings by Rolling Stone Ron Wood

Calling from the Croisette

Fans in Cannes

And one juggler
For ‘on the red carpet’ Cannes photos, check out this photo gallery, courtesy of George Pimentel.