As movie titles go, The Kid With a Bike could hardly be more direct and explicative in its unadorned simplicity. Which is a perfect encapsulation of any film by the resolutely unshowy maestros of humanistic portraiture, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

It’s always a labour of love to make a jazz film, a jazz documentary even more so - especially when the musician subject is no longer around to promote it. But the labour pays off beautifully in Michel Petrucciani, Michael Radford’s fond and informative portrait of the phenomenal jazz pianist, who died in 1999.

Johnny Depp has revealed an unlikely influence on his performance as pirate Captain Jack Sparrow - an amorous cartoon skunk. The star, who is in Cannes to publicise the fourth instalment in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, said he based some of the character on the famously flirtatious Pepe Le Pew from the Warner Brothers cartoons.

While making "Footnote" (He'arat Shulayim), the story of family antagonism in the world of Talmudic study at Jerusalem's Hebrew U., Israeli helmer Joseph Cedar found himself obsessed with minutiae. But the writer-director, whose 2007 "Beaufort" earned him an Oscar nomination for foreign-language film, blames his perfectionist manner on his script.