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Francesca Lollobrigida led a tricolor day for Italy at the Milan Cortina Olympics

High fashion at a high altitude.

From Brad Pitt attending the Paris premiere of Damien Chazelle's Hollywood epic "Babylon", to the Lumières Awards (the equivalent of the French Golden Globes) and a tribute to the late Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, film critic Lisa Nesselson talks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

There she is, waving from the backseat of a convertible on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival. And here she is again, stepping to the tarmac from a jet in Paris, her scarf billowing perfectly in the evening breeze. And again, cloaked in emerald — dress and rings, both…

“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II.

Film actor of the 1950s and 60s who went from early Italian roles to become an international star

She achieved international stardom during the 1950s and ‘60s

Gina Lollobrigida, the high-spirited actor who had dual careers in Hollywood and Europe but may be more fondly remembered in her native Italy for jump-starting an era of celebration and indulgence after years of warfare and oppression, has died. She was 95.

Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of 95, shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer and sculptor after stepping away from the movie world.