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  Monica Bellucci (right) wilth co-star Sophie Marceau at the premiere of Ne Te Retourne Pas in Cannes last week. The Italian actress's apartment was robbed while she was at the festival Thieves used the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival to break into the Paris apartment of Matrix Reloaded beauty Monica Bellucci, it emerged today. As the Italian sex symbol and her actor husband Vincent Cassel appeared on TV from the south of France, the burglars got away with more than £80,000 in cash. Jewellery and computer and video equipment worth at least double that amount were also taken, as well as Miss Bellucci’s passport – something she needed this week to travel to Hollywood. ‘It was clearly a meticulously planned burglary,’ said one of the officers investigating the burglary in Boulevard de Ménilmontant, in the French capital’s 20th arrondissement. ‘The thieves are believed to have struck just as the stars were appearing on television in Cannes on Sunday eve...

Have you ever watched an old Hitchcock caper starring Cary Grant and murmured ‘they don’t make them like that any more’? If so, The Tourist is the picture for you. It’s a glossy, sophisticated, gloriously improbable romp — escapist fun for these austere times. A shy, unassuming American tourist on a train to Venice (Johnny Depp in the Cary Grant role) is lured by an absurdly glamorous Englishwoman (Angelina Jolie, never more sensually enigmatic) into a devilish web of dangerous intrigue. Dangerous intrigue: A shy American tourist (Johnny Depp) is lured into a devlish web by glamorous Englishwoman Angelina Jolie in The Tourist First, the British police (under a grumpy Timothy Dalton and a fanatical Paul Bettany) and then Russian gangsters (led by a Bond-villainish Steven Berkoff) wrongly identify him as an elusive master-criminal. He’s also being followed by a dark, handsome, mystery man (Rufus Sewell at his most laconic). Who on earth could that be? The Tourist has ...

Since Carla Bruni-Sarkozy swept on to the world stage in Dior, France has been reinstated as global leader of all things cool. From fashion to film, the French are once more the flavour du jour. Lucie Greene takes a look at the crème de la crème Oh la Carla! Once upon a time France was simply synonymous with style – the language, the ladies, the fashion labels. From Christian Dior to Christian Louboutin, the French have historically done chic brilliantly – if a culture can ooze charm, theirs did. But in recent years the je ne sais quoi faded and the nation simply lost its va-va-voom. Maybe it was the competition from our 1990s Brit-cool or the ascendancy of all things brash, bling and very un-Français – who knows? And, quite frankly, in 2009 who cares, because France is back! In the past 12 months it has been reinstated as global leader of all things hot, and the fashion pack can’t get enough of it. Following behind the kitten heels of First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkoz...

The title may not be hugely inspired, but you must give Female Agents credit for doing precisely what it says on the tin  -  the tin being designed in the middle of the 20th century and containing Gauloises cigarettes. In 1944, five French women are recruited by the SOE, an intelligence service overseen by Winston Churchill, to rescue a British agent. These are, in ascending order of grit and resourcefulness, Gaelle (Deborah Francois), Suze (Marie Gillain), Maria (Maya Sansa), Jeanne (Julie Depardieu) and Louise ( Sophie Marceau ). Gritty and intelligent: a French Charlie's Angels What follows is a sort of taut, intellectual version of Charlie's Angels with added torture, as each woman shows amazing courage in thwarting the efforts of Colonel Heindrich, the head of Nazi counter-intelligence, to find out crucial information regarding the upcoming landings on the Normandy beaches.     It's based on a true story and, while you can't help feeling th...

Gemma Arterton at the Quantum of Solace premiere this week I love Gemma Arterton, the latest Bond girl. Not only is she a talented actress, but she is also a stunning beauty. However, poor Gemma got it hopelessly wrong on the red carpet on Wednesday night at the Quantum of Solace premiere. She chose a bizarre purple mini-dress by Miu Miu which was slashed to the thigh but trailed at the back. She accessorised her outfit with an ugly studded belt and matching clumpy shoes, both of which were far too heavy for the flimsy fabric of her dress. The 22-year-old from Kent was wise to avoid a long, demure dress as she would have looked like lamb dressed as mutton. Sadly, she went too far in the opposite direction and chose a dress that was fussy, tarty and did her curvy figure no favours at all. Of course, she is still young and entitled to make fashion faux pas, but she would do well to learn the golden rule of red carpet fashion: expose only one erogenous zone at a time. So, ...

 The French have voted justice minister Rachida Dati as the best  representative of Gallic womanhood in the world today, a fascinating new poll reveals. The 43-year-old single mother, who rose from a troubled immigrant background to  high office, follows in a long list of internationally famous female icons including Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve. Just as intriguingly, French First Lady Carla Bruni only makes eighth place on the list. Rachida Dati (left) was voted greatest living French woman while Carla Bruni made eighth place - despite being Italian Most are only too well aware that Miss Bruni was born in Italy, and only  received a French passport last year following a whirlwind marriage to  President Nicolas Sarkozy. Miss Dati, by contrast, is praised in the survey for traditional French female attributes including style, beauty and sexiness - but also for independence,  dynamism and ‘inner steel’ in her professional life....

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Sophie Marceau  - 1920x1200 This entry was posted on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 AM and is filed under  Sophie Marceau Wallpaper . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Sophie Marceau is honored by French men as “forever love”. She has a pair of clean and gloomy eyes, and when smiling, she seems like a teenage girl, although she has been the mother of her son and daughter. If Angelina Jolie makes you feel she is so strong that people beside her become relatively a little weak, then Sophie Marceau will give you no pressure in the life except the identity as the super star.

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