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Celebrities’ daring red carpet looks at Cannes Film Festival

Big name guests have not held back when it comes to red carpet fashion at the world’s leading film festival. See the pictures.

Cannes Film Festival rep carpet looks. Pictures: Getty Images; AFP
Cannes Film Festival rep carpet looks. Pictures: Getty Images; AFP

The world’s leading film festival is underway in southern France, with celebrities taking to the red carpet to show off their glamorous gowns ahead of movie premieres.

Big names like Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts and Alessandra Ambrosio walked the carpet on Thursday for the screening of Armageddon Time at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Hathaway, who stars in the American period drama, looked elegant in a Armani Privé floor-length white gown.

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Anne Hathaway departing from the screening of her film Armageddon Time during the 75th annual Cannes Film festival. Picture: John Phillips/Getty Images
Anne Hathaway departing from the screening of her film Armageddon Time during the 75th annual Cannes Film festival. Picture: John Phillips/Getty Images

The coming-of-age drama was written and directed by James Gray and is set in 1980 Queens, New York, where he grew up.

Hathaway plays the protagonist’s mum.

Hathaway wore Armani Privé. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP
Hathaway wore Armani Privé. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP

Hollywood heavyweight Julia Roberts also made an appearance at the film’s premiere wearing a Louis Vuitton suit.

Julia Roberts’ first look of the night. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP
Julia Roberts’ first look of the night. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP

Roberts rocked two looks in one night, later presenting this year’s Chopard Trophy to actors Sheila Atim and Jack Lowden.

The trophy honours up-and-coming talent during the Cannes Film Festival.

Roberts arriving for the screening of Armageddon Time. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Roberts arriving for the screening of Armageddon Time. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Later, she had a completely different hair style to present the Chopard Trophy. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Later, she had a completely different hair style to present the Chopard Trophy. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Famous Brazilian-American model, actor and fashion designer Alessandra Ambrosio also wore white to the screening of Armageddon Time.

But Ambrosio’s look was much more dramatic than Hathaway’s.

She was dressed by French fashion designer Stephanie Rolland, who was actually raised in Cannes and Nice.

Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio wore Stephanie Rolland. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP
Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio wore Stephanie Rolland. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP
Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Fellow former Victoria’s Secret Angel Jasmine Tookes wore a beaded tulle long-sleeve crop top and matching wrap skirt by Zuhair Murad.

Jasmine Tookes wore a dress from Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Jasmine Tookes wore a dress from Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP

French model Cindy Bruna turned heads in a huge baby pink tiered floor-length gown by Giambattista Valli.

French model Cindy Bruna wore Giambattista Valli. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
French model Cindy Bruna wore Giambattista Valli. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Picture: Christophe Simon / AFP
Picture: Christophe Simon / AFP

Green was a popular choice, worn by Belgian model Rose Bertram, German model Emma Todt and British singer Tallia Storm

Bertram wore a sheer dress by Hamda Al Fahim.

Belgian model Rose Bertram. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
Belgian model Rose Bertram. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Todt wore Cybele Bertin and Storm wore Yanina Couture.

German model Emma Todt. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
German model Emma Todt. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
British singer Tallia Storm. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
British singer Tallia Storm. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

A day earlier celebrities had flocked to see the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick.

Star of the film Tom Cruise hit the carpet with his co-star Jennifer Connelly, who wore Louis Vuitton.

Jennifer Connelly and Tom Cruise leave the screening of Top Gun: Maverick. Picture: Joe Maher/Getty Images
Jennifer Connelly and Tom Cruise leave the screening of Top Gun: Maverick. Picture: Joe Maher/Getty Images

American actress Elle Fanning wore Armani Privé and Australian actress Katherine Langford wore Valentino.

Elle Fanning. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Elle Fanning. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Australian actress Katherine Langford. Picture: Christophe Simon / AFP
Australian actress Katherine Langford. Picture: Christophe Simon / AFP

Brazilian model Adriana Lima, a former Victoria’s Secret Angel, certainly stood out in Balmain, despite wearing black.

She posed with her exposed baby bump alongside her partner Andre Lemmers, a US film producer.

Pregnant Adriana Lima posed with her partner, US film producer Andre Lemmers. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP
Pregnant Adriana Lima posed with her partner, US film producer Andre Lemmers. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP

In contrast, Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis stepped out in a bright yellow Alexander McQueen gown alongside her husband Julius Tennon.

Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP
Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon. Picture: Loic Venance / AFP

About 35,000 film professionals are expected at Cannes Film Festival from May 17 to 28.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann’s highly-anticipated Elvis Presley biopic, Elvis, will premiere during the festival.

Presley is played by American actor Austin Butler.

Originally published as Celebrities’ daring red carpet looks at Cannes Film Festival

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