Cannes Film Festival 2021: red carpet rolls out for 'The French Dispatch' premiere

Tilda Swinton, Timothee Chalamet and Owen Wilson were among the famous faces who turned out for the star-studded event

Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Benicio Del Toro and Alexandre Desplat attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Timothee Chalamet and Adrien Brody attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Timothee Chalamet and Bill Murray attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Tilda Swinton attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Benicio del Toro attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Timothee Chalamet attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Owen Wilson attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Maggie Gyllenhaal attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Kat Graham attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Iris Law attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Anna Cleveland attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Dylan Penn attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Melanie Laurent attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Oliver Stone and Jung Sun-jung attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Clotilde Courau attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Julian Perretta and Kambree Dalton attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Jarvis Cocker attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Kimberley Garner attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Mahlagha Jaberi attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Honor Swinton Byrne attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Marcelo Vieira and Clarisse Alves attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Marta Pozzan attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Mael Rouin Berrandou, Dali Benssalah and Sofian Khammes attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Nieves Alvarez attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Aymerick Moucouveia, Camelia Jordana, Naomi Diaz and Yann Kidou attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Christian Louboutin attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Rahul Jain and Pallavi Lodha attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Song Kang-ho, Mati Diop and Kleber Mendonca Filho attend the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Huang Miyi attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Farnoush Hamidian, left, attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Mohammed Al Turki attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Bill Murray attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Linh Dan Pham attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Noemie Merlant attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Lena Mahfouf attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Natasha Poly attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Kiera Chaplin attends the screening of 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Hugo Selignac, Karim Leklou and Adele Exarchopoulos attend a screening of 'Bac Nord' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Louis Garrel, Julia Boeme and Laetitia Casta attend a screening of 'Bac Nord' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Tahar Rahim attends a screening of 'Bac Nord' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Laetitia Casta attends a screening of 'Bac Nord' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Camille Charriere attends a screening of 'Bac Nord' at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021

Some of Hollywood's most famous names graced the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night for one of the event's most highly anticipated premieres.

Wes Anderson's comedy-drama The French Dispatch was screened at the cinematic celebration, with a number of the film's stars in attendance.

Benicio Del Toro, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody and Owen Murray all walked the red carpet in their finest eveningwear, with actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kat Graham and Melanie Laurent also turning up for the glitzy premiere.

Scroll through the gallery above to see all the stars at the premiere of 'The French Dispatch' at Cannes Film Festival 2021.

Tilda Swinton, who plays a staff member of the fictitious French Dispatch newspaper in the film, wore a head-turning Haider Ackermann look for the event, featuring contrasting pink and orange tones and almost chainmail-like sequinned sleeves.

Timothee Chalamet, meanwhile, who plays a revolutionary student in Anderson's latest, opted for a metallic silver suit by Tom Ford, paired with blinding-white leather boots.

The French Dispatch was the latest film to premiere at Cannes, now in its 74th year, after the festival was cancelled entirely in 2020 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The film, centred around a weekly literary magazine situated in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blase, was originally due to premiere at last year's festival. The makers of the movie opted to delay its release, and it is due to hit cinemas in October.

Star Lea Seydoux, who was due to attend the Cannes event, was forced to cancel her plans after testing positive for Covid-19. The French actress has been fully vaccinated against the virus, but tested positive while working on a film, her publicist confirmed on Saturday.

This year, Cannes has introduced an advance booking system for screenings, those attending from outside the European Union must submit to regular Covid-19 testing, and mask-wearing is mandatory.

- Additional reporting by AP