Torrential rain broke the good weather on Saturday night, so what better way of getting away from it all than heading for the hills and an elegant dinner hosted by PolyGram and Castle Rock in the Villa Vallis Aurea? The champagne flowed and flowed to keep the guests amused while the evening's special guests, Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant, were caught up in traffic on the way from the vastly expensive Hotel du Cap in Antibes.
Wearing a sparkle-studded red dress, Hurley looked dazzling as their limo finally curved its way up the hill to the villa, while Grant looked, well, like he usually does - floppy hair, glasses, suit and tie. They were celebrating the completion of the movie Mickey Blue Eyes, which Hurley produced and which features Grant as an English auctioneer in New York who marries a Mafioso's daughter played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, another dinner guest at the villa.
"It's a fantastic film, I can assure you," Hugh said in his after-dinner speech before flying back to London where he is shooting The Notting Hill Film with Julia Roberts.
The guests included Irish producer Ronan Glennane who was in Cannes with a raft of projects, and Cannes jury member Michael Winterbottom, who is looking forward to directing Dervla Kirwan and Chris Eccleston in the romantic comedy, Old New Borrowed Blue, which starts shooting in Belfast next month.