Cannes 2010: Eva Herzigova plays the sultry lead role in lace dress and bondage heels

By Chris Johnson and Liz Thomas

Making an entrance: Eva Herzigova makes her mark on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last night for the premiere of a French movie


She may not have a role in the film (or even heard of it for that matter) - but that was no obstacle to Eva Herzigova being the main event on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last night.

The supermodel and actress arrived at the opening night of French romantic period film, The Princess of Montpensier, and turned heads in her revealing LBD.

Statuesque Czech-born Eva, who stands tall at 5ft11, teamed her look with a pair of sky-high, strappy bondage heels and certainly looked more youthful than her 37 years


Statuesque: The Czech-born supermodel teamed her LBD with bondage heels


Other names of note at the event included Lost acterss Evangeline Lily, who layered up in a floor-length maxi dress.

French actress, Melanie Thierry, 28, plays the title role in the movie, which is about a love triangle set in 1562 France.

For her big night she slipped into a statement strapless pink gown as she posed with her co-stars.


Killer heels and hot wheels: After the premiere of The Princess of Montpensier, Eva was pictured arriving at the Hotel Majestic


Starlet: Lost actress Evangeline Lily wore a flowing, layered maxi dress


The film, by 'In the Electric Mist' director Bertrand Tavernier, sees Thierry play Marie de Montpensier, a young noblewoman determined to pursue her romance with her childhood sweetheart - played by 'A Very Long Engagement' star Gaspard Ulliel - even after her scheming father marries her off to someone else for political reasons.

'At the beginning, I was a little scared,' Thierry said at a news conference. 'When I read the script, I said to myself 'Oh God, I will never make it, (the language) is much too complicated.'

'But it's so clear when you say it and so beautiful and so pure ... that once you master it, it becomes a real pleasure to act,' said the 28-year-old actress, who's among the leading lights of the new generation of young French actresses

'The Princess of Montpensier' is based on a 1662 novel of the same name by Madame de La Fayette - required reading at many schools in France.

'When I read the book, I saw in it the possibility of making a really touching movie about love out of it,' said Tavernier, adding that the characters' complexity and his own ignorance about the tumultuous period during which the story is set also caught his attention.

It takes place during the bloody wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants that raged for nearly four decades.

'Each and every film I've made I made because I wanted to learn something,' said Tavernier, who has made many period movies over his nearly half-century-long career.

'The Princess of Montpensier' is his fourth film in the running for the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the French Riviera festival's top prize.


Pretty in pink: French actress Melanie Thierry stars in The Princess Of Montpensier and, right, fellow French star Celine Durand


Cast call: The film's stars, from left Raphael Personnaz, Cannes film festival president Gilles Jacob, director Bertrand Tavernier, Gaspard Ulliel, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet and Thierry


source: dailymail