While his divorce from Madonna goes from bad to worse with allegations of each other’s failings, Guy Ritchie looked happy Thursday night as Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law took him out on the town.

The trio made a surprise visit to the White Cube Gallery in London’s tony Mayfair district for a private-view exhibition held by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood.

“Guy was in great form, hanging out with friends having a good time,” one gallery guest tells PEOPLE. “He seemed quite merry and had his arms around lots of people and smiling.”

“Guy seemed quite happy being out and about with his friends,” adds the guest. “I think the distraction is just what he needed, especially the way he was smiling.”

Ritchie and his posse are now expected to head to Manchester in northwest England to continue filming for another week.

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She was a novice onscreen - and Jude Law has been around the block on-camera and off - but their lengthy smooch for My Blueberry Nights has become a hot view on YouTube.

“He’s fabulous,” said Jones of Law at The Cinema Society and IWC-sponsored premiere of the film in New York Wednesday night. “A great guy.”

Click here to see video of the steamy kiss.

“All I had to do was be passed out on the table,” added Jones. “Jude had to do this whole little dance. My eyes were closed, but it looks good on film. It was … not bad. I can’t imagine anyone better at kissing.”

scene didn’t require words. “I saw good chemistry between them,” the director said. “I told Jude, ‘When you’re playing tennis with a first timer, you have to be prepared for any scenario. And that will bring new energy to your work.’ The kiss is the first time that they physically touch. He has to be very precise. He has to get rid of the cream on her lips %26#91;from pie%26#93; and then kiss.”

“He’s very cute,” singer Chan Marshall, also known as Cat Power, who also

smooches Law in the film, told the audience at the Tribeca Grand Screening

room. “I kissed him first.”

“Well, I kissed him longer,” replied Jones.

Two of the late director Anthony Minghella’s most notable leading men, Jude Law and Ralph Fiennes, as well as his leading ladies, have expressed sadness and shock over the death of their friend and collaborator.

Minghella passed away at age 54 early Tuesday after suffering a fatal hemorrhage following surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck, said his rep.

“I’m devastated, there is really no way to put it into words,” says Minghella’s Cold Mountain star Nicole Kidman, 40. “He was a gift to the world.”

Paltrow, who appeared in the director’s 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley said, “He was very specific and very loving. He was very sweet to his actors. He would kind of massage everybody while he was talking - very tactile and warm.”

Said Law, also 35: “I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Anthony’s untimely death. I worked with him on three films, more than with any other director, but had come to value him more as a friend than as a colleague.”

Law worked with Minghella in the actor’s breakthrough role as murder victim Dickie Greenleaf in Mr. Ripley. He also was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in Minghella’s 2003 Cold Mountain and starred in the 2006 drama Breaking and Entering.

“He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialogue that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless,” said Law. “He made work feel like fun. He was a sweet, warm, bright and funny man who was interested in everything from football to opera, films, music, literature, people and most of all his family whom he adored and to whom I send my thoughts and love. I shall miss him hugely.”

Fiennes, 45, who starred in Minghella’s Best Picture Oscar winner, 1996 The English Patient (which won nine Oscars in all, including Best Director), said he was “devastated and shocked to hear” of the filmmaker’s death.

“Anthony possessed a sensitivity and alertness to the actor’s process that very few directors have. He directed most of The English Patient with an ankle in plaster, never losing his gentle humor and precision. He delighted in the contribution of everyone - he was a true collaborator.”

In terms of Minghella’s output, Fiennes said, “His films deal with extreme aloneness and the redemptive power of love, even at the moment of death. I will remember him as a man who always wanted to get to the heart of the matter.”

Jude Law has a few words of advice for Matt Damon, PEOPLE’s 2007 Sexiest Man Alive.

“Keep up the good work, Matt,” Law said of his co-star in The Talented Mr. Ripley, at Sunday night’s London premiere of his new film Sleuth.

The 34-year-old flew to London especially for Sunday’s premiere: Law said he needed to be in Toronto the following morning to resume filming Repossession Mambo.

The film also is the reason Law snipped off his golden locks. Michael Caine, who also stars in Sleuth, jokingly told PEOPLE: “You won’t recognize him with the haircut.”

For Law’s part, he appeared to enjoy his new low-maintenance ‘do. “It’s very easy like this, I have to say,” Law told reporters, patting his short, clipped hair.

His hair wasn’t the only thing to change. Law looked exceedingly fit and admitted that he had been working out for his new film. His fitness regime is “quite intense,” he said.