Actors Chris O'Dowd, Shari Sebbens, Jessica
Mauboy, director Wayne Blair, Miranda Tapsell, Deborah Mailman and Tory Kittles
in Cannes. Source: Getty Images
Megan Lehmann, The Sunday Telegraph, reports
Jessica Mauboy has played the red carpet jewel for the premiere of new Australian film The Sapphires at the Cannes Film Festival.
In a figure-hugging, silver sequined dress, the 22-year-old singer sparkled alongside director Wayne Blair and her co-stars as she entered a packed cinema on the French Riviera for the screening.
Festival commentators at Cannes have described The Sapphires as a "feel-good drama'' and a "comedy'' and Saturday night's audience, crammed with critics, gave it a long standing ovation.
"It's about these four Aboriginal women from Australia in 1968. They go to Vietnam and they sing soul music for the American troops,'' Blair said of his film before the screening.
"Based on a true story that happened in Australia when Aboriginal people weren't even counted on the Census, these four people from country Victoria get picked up by this white Irish guy.
"It's a story that in 100
minutes starts at a reserve or mission in Australia, (then) we go to Saigon and
come back.''
Standing alongside Mauboy to complete the foursome for Australia's version of The Supremes are Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell.
The starlets were joined on Saturday night by male co-stars Chris O'Dowd and Tory Kittles.
Mailman was thrilled to attend the premiere on the Cote d'Azur.
Standing alongside Mauboy to complete the foursome for Australia's version of The Supremes are Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell.
The starlets were joined on Saturday night by male co-stars Chris O'Dowd and Tory Kittles.
Mailman was thrilled to attend the premiere on the Cote d'Azur.
"Who would have imagined that
we would be here?" the jubilant actress told The Sunday Telegraph ahead
of the screening in front of more than 2000 film buffs at the Palais des
Festivals, with the film's Sydney director Wayne Blair and co-stars, including
Jessica Mauboy.
"My head's spinning and it's
not just from the jet-lag - it's so exciting. It's really fantastic,"
Mailman said.
The premiere caps a triumphant week
for the film, about four young Aboriginal women plucked from a far-flung
mission to become Australia's answer to The Supremes. Picked up for
international distribution by Hollywood hit-makers The Weinstein Company, the
film has also been chosen to open the Melbourne International Film Festival
ahead of its national release on August 9.
"I'm very proud of this
film," Mailman said. "And to walk the red carpet in Cannes promoting
it with these girls and the director and writer - us mob walking down that red
carpet together - I've been so looking forward to that."
Mailman is a Cannes first-timer
whose French experience extends to "a bit of a baguette, some
Yoplait".
The Sapphires, which is not in competition at Cannes, is to be released
in Australia on August 9.
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