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Starting the show: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrived in Italy to promote Gravity at the 70th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival
The Virginia-born actress completed the look with tan strappy sandals, while her long brunette hair fell freely around her face. Soft pink blush and matching lipstick added the finishing touches to her makeup.
Clooney, 52, kept close to his Miss Congeniality co-star and looked equally polished in a navy pinstripe suit paired with a white shirt featuring blue stripes.
He tucked sunglasses into his blazer pocket and kept the rest of his accessories understated, opting for a black belt and matching black shoes.
Dazzling: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney looked radiant at the Venice Film Festival, with Bullock in a pink, green and red panelled dress and Clooney in a sleek pinstripe suit
Chatty: Director Alfonso Cuaron and actress Sandra Bullock chat to each other at the Gravity photocall
The actor appeared bronzed and well rested after spending a relaxing summer at his home on Lake Como.
The pair’s new American techno-thriller, Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, opened this year’s Venice Film Festival, although it was not competing for an award.
Large crowds of devoted fans gathered outside the Palazzo del Casino, hoping to collect autographs and capture photographs of the Hollywood stars.
Filled with laughter: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney share a joke with the camera crew as they open the festival
All aboard: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney enjoy a speedboat ride while promoting their latest film, Gravity, in Venice
Venetian way of life: After only two days in Venice, the pair appeared to have embraced the city’s lifestyle as they relaxed aboard a taxi boat
Dazzling: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney pose for photographers
Bullock and Clooney laughed together and appeared to savour the occasion ahead of the film’s first screening. In Gravity, they play astronauts fighting to survive aboard a damaged space shuttle.
Clooney travelled from his Lake Como home by coach with Sandra and her two-year-old son, Louis, whom she adopted in 2010. After arriving the previous day, they explored Venice by taxi boat and took in the city’s sights and sounds.
The festival’s pre-opening event was held on Tuesday at the Campo San Polo Arena. It featured a screening of Francesco Rosi’s 1963 film Le mani sulla città (Hands Over the City).
Co-stars: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney gaze in admiration of each other at the Venice Film Festival
Directed by Alberto Barbera, the 70th festival will run from August 28 to September 7.
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms.
The jury will award prizes for feature-length films, including the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion for Best Director and a new award, the Grand Jury Prize.
Strangle me now: Sandra jokes around with George on the taxi boat on the way to the photocall
So chic: Aboard the Warner Bros boat, both Sandra and George wore shades as they zoomed across the water to the opening day of the Venice Film Festival
A total of twenty films will vie for the coveted Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival, and include Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem, starring Christoph Waltz as a reclusive computer genius, and Peter Landesman's Parkland, which looks into what happened at Dallas' Parkland hospital the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Director of the festival, Alberto Barbera, said in an interview about the number of bleak films amongst this year's line-up: 'Perhaps one of the strongest themes that emerges from all the films is the lack of prospects. There's an acknowledgment of an extremely problematic situation, in some cases tragic,' Barbera told a news conference.
'Cinema mirrors reality, so we can't complain if auteur films today gives us an image of our times that is not consoling.'
Greeting the crowds: Sandra greeted the fans as they waited eagerly for an autograph and a photo with the star
Hysteria: Girls were literally hysterical as they clung onto George Clooney's arm at the Venice Film Festival
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