Kylie In Cannes: Star Dazzles Film Festival

Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman created a strong Australian presence in Cannes as they promoted their latest films at the 65th annual film festival.

Pop star Kylie Minogue is starring in French director Leos Carax's new surreal offering Holy Motors and said she wanted to be as open as possible for the role, stripping herself of "being Kylie".
The singer told a press conference in Cannes: "It felt good to be back on set.
"I took it very seriously, I basically banned my entire entourage of coming with me.
"I kind of stripped myself of being Kylie and wanted to go back to being as basic as possible and pretty much be a blank canvas for Leos."

Kylie poses for a photographer on the red carpet in Cannes

The film, in which she stars alongside Eva Mendes, is in the running for the top Palme d'Or prize, something Minogue said "feels like a dream".
Meanwhile Nicole Kidman arrived in Nice for the world premiere of her new thriller The Paperboy.

Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron arrive in Nice 

Based on the novel of the same name by Pete Dexter, The Paperboy is set in Miami in the 1960s, and tells the story of two brothers who try to uncover the truth about a man on death row.
Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey play the brothers and Efron was at Kidman's side when she posed for pictures.
Pete Doherty premiered his movie Confession Of A Child Of The Century, an adaptation of French writer Alfred de Musset's autobiographical novel of the same name, earlier in the week at the festival but critics were not kind to the ex-Libertines frontman's performance.
The Guardian newspaper said of the film: "Pete Doherty's performance as a philosophising dandy is as catastrophic as the rest of this insufferable film", and more reviews followed in the same vein.
But it appears not to have hampered 33-year-old Doherty's chances of starring in another film.
He told Screen magazine he has been approached by French director Philippe Grandrieux to star in his new project.
"We went out for a little stroll by the canal," he said.
"He told me about this character - an English guy who comes to Paris, a real crackhead who falls in love with all these women."

Pete Doherty's film was not received well by critics

Elsewhere at the event Hollywood star Alec Baldwin caused a stir by calling a top movie producer a "douchebag" in an angry tirade after he refused to appear in the actor's documentary.
The actor was angered when Harvey Weinstein, who produced Lord Of The Rings, would not take part in the film Baldwin is making about movie financing.
The Hollywood Reporter said Baldwin was furious when he arrived with fiancee Hilaria Thomas at the Calvin Klein IFP party in the French Riviera resort.
"I don't care who knows," he is reported to have said.
"After the success he had at Cannes last year and all the f****** Oscars, he's still a f****** douche bag. I can't believe it."
Baldwin was upset that Weinstein opted out of participating in Seduced And Abandoned, the Cannes documentary he is shooting with director James Toback.