Raising the heat: Gemma Arterton will appear at the Cannes next monthGemma Arterton will be giving the Cannes Film Festival on the Cote d'Azur some heat when she sashays up the festival's fabled red steps.
The British actress stars with Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Tamsin Greig and Roger Allam in Stephen Frears's picture Tamara Drewe, which will have a special, out-of-competition screening in Cannes next month.
The movie's based on the Posy Simmonds graphic comic strip.
Gemma opens in another film - the cracking kidnap thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed - on April 30.
Cannes will be showing off some of the best of British talent during its annual homage to cinema.
Mike Leigh's latest film, Another Year, will be in the main competition. It stars Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, David Bradley and Imelda Staunton.
Broadbent told me he's been forbidden by Leigh to talk about the movie, but he let slip that Manville gives what he called 'an incredible performance'.
Ridley Scott's take on Robin Hood opens the festival on May 12, with stars Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen and Oscar Issac likely to be in attendance.
Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, which stars Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts and Josh Brolin, also has an out-of-competition slot.
Watts and Brolin, by the way, are doing double duty in Cannes. Naomi appears with Sean Penn in Doug Liman's political drama Fair Game, while Brolin pops up in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps with Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan and Shia LeBeouf.
Film-maker Sophie Fiennes has won an out-of-competition slot in Cannes for the world premiere of her documentary Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, which explores the work of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.
Aaron Johnson and Matthew Beard will lead the screening of Hideo Nakata's film Chatroom in the festival's Un Certain Regard section. The movie's adapted from Enda Walsh's play of the same name.
French fancy: Gemma's Tamara Drewe, based on the newspaper cartoon strip Posy Simmonds will have an out-of-competition screeningsource: dailymail
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