Tender, funny, moving and true, The Motorcycle Diaries has just received a very warm reaction from the world's assembled press. Walter Salles' riveting drama traces the road trip around South America that radicalised Argentine medical student Ernesto Guevara (Gael García Bernal), sowing the seeds for the revolutionary "Ché". Bernal is a strong contender for best actor and radiates the necessary charisma and compassion, even if his character feels a little too saintly, suggesting the idealism which motivated the communist "comandante", without hinting at the darkness which would later see him sign death warrants for unfairly-tried prisoners when ruling Cuba with Castro. Rodrigo De La Serna is the stand-out turn for me, as Guevara's roguish travelling companion Alberto Granado. It's a brilliant performance in a beautiful film.

Good Bye Lenin! star Daniel Brühl is in town promoting The Edukators. I didn't see the film, but I did bump into him in the lavs. Quaffing ale at the BBC FILMS party, I saw Dirty Pretty Things director Stephen Frears rubbing shoulders with Beeb entertainment honcho Alan Yentob and film boss David Thompson - out here to support The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (screening In Competition on Friday). I didn't chat to any of them: just did the required Hail Mary's and toddled off to the bar.

Now, a few answers to some of your questions... Benoit Arsenault wrote in to recommend I catch What Remains Of Us, a Canadian documentary about the struggle for freedom in Tibet. Unfortunately I couldn't make the screening, but Leslie Felperin, writing for Variety, was full of praise for the film, describing it as a "passionate, sobering... indictment of Chinese repression". Jadranka Stupar wrote in to observe: "I am surprised that you do not know that Emir Kusturica won two times the Palme d'Or." To which the only response is... er, I do.

And finally, Christof Schwiening wants to know whether Dear Frankie, the British movie screening in Un Certain Regard, is any good. The short answer, from what I've heard, is yes. I'm afraid I skipped the screening to catch up with the boys from Modern Life, the Brighton-based production company out here to flog their movies The Johnna Man and Left For Dead (a martial arts actioner of which I caught the final half hour - it's a blast). You can see their frank and funny reactions to the perils and pleasures of a screening at Cannes in today's video clip, Fighting Talk.