It may be a festival of film, but it was two former television stars who grabbed the limelight at Cannes yesterday.

Twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, the popular hosts of '80s French sci-fi series Temps X, were barely recognisable on the Chopard red carpet, thanks to the incredible amount of cosmetic surgery both appear to have undergone.



Now aged in their 60s, the shock appearance has prompted the British press to liken the pair to cosmetic surgery devotee Jocelyn Wildenstein.



It has been a star-studded 24 hours on the French Riviera, with the arrival of Hollywood A-listers Johnny Depp, Michelle Williams and Juliette Binoche at the glamorous world film festival.

Unfamiliar faces...Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff arrive at Cannes, and inset, as they appeared on TV in the 1980s. Credit:Getty

Loading

German designer Karl Lagerfeld has also made an appearance.

Williams's new film Blue Valentine, co-starring Canadian star Ryan Gosling, screened at Cannes overnight, while French director Xavier Beauvois earned rousing applause when his Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of God and Men) was shown to the judges.



French travel film Copie Conforme, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, also screened overnight.



Star Juliette Binoche broke down in tears at a pre-screening press conference while speaking of fellow Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is thought to be on a hunger strike.