Last updated at 19:30 16 May 2008

It's five years since the highly sexed Russian teenagers t.A.T.u. shocked their way to the top of the UK charts and now the slightly more mature duo (at least in terms of age) are planning a rerun.

The girls can't pretend to be girlfriends any more - younger member Yulia Volkova had a baby in December - but they know how to turn on the sauce.

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Older and wiser: Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova in Cannes and in 2003 pretending to be schoolgirl lesbians

The video for their latest single goes far further than any of their lipstick lesbian antics, and features them seductively stripping off her underwear and in the shower.

In one scene in Beliy Plaschik, Lena Katina lies totally naked on a bed, save for a studded punk bracelet on her wrist.

The pair were in Cannes yesterday to promote their new album, Waste Management, which features the single and also provides the soundtrack for the new Mischa Barton movie, You And I, which premieres at the Riviera resort's film festival.

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Lena, left, and Yulia, with their clothes on at the start of the video

The Roland Joffe directed affair sees the 21-year-old former The O.C. star playing one of two teenage girls who fall in love after they meet on the t.A.T.u. fansite and then at a concert in Moscow.

The plotline describes how they "are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder". Lena and Yulia, not surprisingly, play themselves in the film, which is set in Moscow and LA.

The band were formed in 1999 by a Moscow mogul but it wasn't until 2003 Lena and Yulia, now 23, hit on the formula that won them international fame and took them to the top of the UK charts with All The Things She Said.

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A scantily-clad Lena lies on a bed in the controversial video for Beliy Plaschik

The song went platinum in several countries, but not much has been heard from them since, apart from a third place in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003.

They did find time to admit that dressing in Catholic school girls' uniforms and kissing each other at any given opportunity was just part of their act, and also appeared with real machine guns during their slot at the World Music Awards in 2006.

They looked almost demure by comparison as they posed in Cannes today, but controversy never follows fare behind the pair and when You And I is released in August, expect them to storm the charts once more.