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The Best of Cannes 2012 - The 65th annual edition of the most glamorous and prestigious film festival in the world has come to an end. We take a look back at the quirkiest and most beautiful portraits and red carpet images from this year's Cannes international film festival.
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The Best of Cannes 2012
- Kim Kardashian channels Angelina Jolie's red carpet leg as she arrives in yellow Elie Saab for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Cap d'Antibes.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Brad Pitt brught his long blonde locks to the photocall for his latest film Killing Them Softly.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - A curvy Aishwarya Rai arrives for the screening of Cosmopolis. The Bollywood actress has been heavily criticised back in India for gaining weight following the birth of her daughter last year.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - New couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were keen to show off their love in Cannes. They attended a screening for Kanye's experimental short film Cruel Summer. The movie stars rapper Kid Cudi as a car thief who falls for a blind Arabian princess.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Cannes jury member Diane Kruger attends the festival closing ceremony in a bulbous black and white plaid ballgown.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Kristen Stewart comes out to support boyfriend Robert Pattinson at the premiere of his new movie Cosmopolis, wearing a sexy red Reem Acra creation.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Director Bernard-Henry Levy, centre, flanked by two unidentified persons wearing Syrian flags pose during a photo call for The Oath of Tobruk.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - A very pregnant Reese Witherspoon is escorted up the steps by her Mud co-star Matthew McConaughey.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves kiss for the cameras at the premiere of his movie Mud.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen at the premiere of their movie Hemingway and Gellhorn.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Robert Pattinson is fascinated by his conversation with Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Conspicuously absent from Brad's side on the red carpet was his fiancée Angelina Jolie. Instead, Brad had to play with his iPhone as he snapped away happily throughout the night.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Bill Murray was a vision in checkered multi colours during the photocall for Cannes opening film Moonrise Kingdom, the latest film from director Wes Anderson.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst meet the press at the photo call for their much anticipated movie On the Road.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Isabelle Huppert holds hands with director Michael Haneke as they walk the rain-drenched red carpet for the screening of Palme d'Or winner Love. Strong winds and rain damaged the roof of a Cannes screening room and soaked stars were left shivering on
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Sacha Baron Cohen sparked minor chaos on Cannes' fabled Croisette beachfront as his zany alter ego General Aladeen took a morning stroll on his camel Osama, to promote his new comedy The Dictator.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Star Trek actor Chris Pine attended the Moonrise Kingdom premiere with his new girlfriend, South African model Dominique Piek.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Australian pop star Kylie Minogue is glittering in gold at the premiere of her new French movie Holy Motors. (Photo: AFP)
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Nicole Kidman stands out as she poses with the rest of the cast of Hemingway & Gellhorn.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Former Bond baddie Mads Mikkelsen calls for silence as he walks onstage to accept his Best Actor award for The Hunt. In the Danish film he plays a man falsely accused of molesting a child.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Kylie was later seen rocking in red at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, traditionally held during the Cannes film festival, in Cap d'Antibes.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Kristen Stewart gets sandwiched between her On the Road co-stars Tom Sturridge and Danny Morgan, while director Walter Salles soaks up the adulation.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Foxy The Artist star Jean Dujardin and his wife Alexandra Lamy arrive for the closing Cannes awards ceremony.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Jackie Chan poses for portraits at the American Pavilion. He was in Cannes to promote his new film Chinese Zodiac and caused a bit of a stir when he announced he was retiring from action films.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - The awkward Robert Pattinson pose parade continues as he attends the Cosmopolis photocall with co-stars Sarah Gadon (left) and Emily Hampshire.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Anais Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche and Amelie star Audrey Tautou pose during a photo call for Therese Desqueyroux.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Cannes jury president Nanni Moretti makes a speech during the closing awards ceremony as the rest of the jury, including Andrea Arnold, Diane Kruger, Ewan McGregor, Alexander Payne, and Jean-Paul Gaultier applaud the end of a successful festival.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Singer Macy Gray walks the red carpet with her The Paperboy co-star Nicole Kidman and director Lee Daniels.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Janet Jackson showed off her new figure andf ghostly make-up as she arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, southern France.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Model Kelly Brook was turned heads in a jewelled, light reflecting gown that showed off all her admirable curves.
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The Best of Cannes 2012 - Musician Pete Doherty, director Sylvie Verheyde and model Lily Cole arrive for the screening of The Hunt. Pete's debut acting role in Confession of a Child of the Century was panned by critics in Cannes.
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