Mulling things over? Carey Mulligan looks deep in thought as she arrives at Venice Film Festival dressed in a chic black suit

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Venice chic: English actress Carey Mulligan is spotted in Venice during the 70th annual Venice Film Festival, and was seen hopping aboard a small water taxi in the city

Venice chic: English actress Carey Mulligan is spotted in Venice during the 70th annual Venice Film Festival, and was seen boarding a small water taxi in the city

Soaking up the atmosphere: Actress Carey Mulligan is soaked in the atmosphere in Venice alongside her team

Taking in the surroundings: Carey Mulligan absorbs the atmosphere in Venice with members of her team

The Great Gatsby star chose a sharply tailored black blazer with cropped trousers, a black vest top and matching brogues.

She completed the monochrome look with dark sunglasses, a black leather shoulder bag and a simple gold bar necklace.

Mulligan, who married her childhood friend, Mumford & Sons musician Marcus Mumford, the previous year, wore her platinum blonde hair in a loose bun with her long fringe pinned back. With minimal make-up, her pale complexion provided a natural finishing touch. 

Chic: Carey looked Venice chic for her short trip to the film festival

Chic: Carey Mulligan brought understated style to her brief visit to the film festival

Deep in thought: Carey looked pensive as she visited the 70th festival this year

Thoughtful arrival: Carey appeared pensive as she attended the 70th Venice Film Festival

  

With one hand tucked into her pocket and the other raised near her mouth, Mulligan climbed aboard a water taxi named Rocco. A Venetian man helped her into the boat as she departed the main venue, the Palazzo del Cinema, apparently heading for another festival screening.

Once on board, she picked up a copy of The New York Times and read as the boat moved on. She was likely travelling between one of the festival’s four venues—the Palazzo del Cinema, Palazzo del Casinò, PalaBiennal and Sala Darsena—to see one of the eight  different screens showing the 20 films competing for the coveted Golden Lion at the world’s oldest film festival.

The jury was due to present awards for feature-length films, including the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion for Best Director and the newly introduced Grand Jury Prize.

Helping hand: English actress Carey Mulligan was helped into a water taxi by a Venetian as she arrives in the city on the opening day of the film festival

Helping hand: English actress Carey Mulligan was assisted into a water taxi by a Venetian as she arrived in the city on the festival’s opening day

Time to go: Carey stepped onto the tiny water taxi, the only way to get around in Venice as she tried to get around to as many sites of the festival

Time to move on: Carey boarded the small water taxi as she travelled between venues during the Venice Film Festival

Carey Mulligan clambers aboard the waiting boat in Venice on Wednesday

All aboard: Carey Mulligan climbs onto the waiting boat in Venice on Wednesday

The festival line-up included Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem, starring Christoph Waltz as a reclusive computer genius, and Peter Landesman’s Parkland, which explores events at Dallas’ Parkland hospital on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Mulligan was also set to reunite with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn for I Walk With the Dead, scheduled for release in 2015. Later that year, she would appear as the female lead in the Coen brothers’ American drama Inside Llewyn Davis, alongside Justin Timberlake.

Her upcoming projects also included Hold on to Me, directed by James Marsh, and a new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel, Far from the Madding Crowd.

Off we go: Carey read a copy of the New York Times as she headed off in a water taxi adorned with an Italy flag

Off we go: Carey read a copy of the New York Times as she headed off in a water taxi adorned with an Italy flag

Carey Mulligan sets off in a boat at the 70th International Venice Film Festival

And we're off: Carey Mulligan sets off in a boat at the 70th International Venice Film Festival

Carey Mulligan greets photographers in a black outfit with stylish tortoise shell glasses on the red carpet at the 70th International Venice Film Festival on Thursday

Looking glam: Carey Mulligan greets photographers in a black outfit with stylish tortoise shell glasses on the red carpet at the 70th International Venice Film Festival on Thursday