Keira Knightley lights up the London Film Festival in a cross-my-heart dress at A Dangerous Method screening

By Emily Sheridan

Last updated at 12:18 AM on 25th October 2011







Keira Knightley's latest film A Dangerous Method sees the actress back in conservative period clothing for the umpteenth time.

But as she attended a London Film Festival screening tonight, there was nothing old-fashioned about her sexy dress.

The 26-year-old showed off just the right amount of flesh for an October evening in her black and grey Roksanda Ilincic dress with a cross-my-heart wrap top detail.

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Slender: Keira Knightley shows off her slim frame in a black and grey Roksanda Ilincic dress at A Dangerous Method screening in London

Form-fitting: The dress hugged the actress's delicate curves in all the right places

She teamed the ankle-length dress with satin peep-toe heels and a swept back updo as she posed on the red carpet at the Leicester Square screening.

Knightley was joined at the festival by the film's director David Cronenburg and her co-stars Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender.

A Dangerous Method tells the story of the relationship between psychoanalysts Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Mortensen).

We love you! Keira borrowed a friend's jacket as she went round signing autographs for fans

Knightley plays Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, who has an affair with Jung and ends up with some saucy spanking scenes.

In a recent interview, the actress admitted downing a vodka before filming the spanking scenes.

She said: 'I did a couple of shots of vodka - definitely - beforehand, and then a couple of glasses of champagne as a celebration of never having to do that again.'

Glamour girl: The combination of the dress and heels made Knightley look even taller than 5ft 7in

Knightley admitted the spanking initially put her off the script and she phoned Cronenberg to decline the offer of the part.

She explained: 'When I first read the script, I thought, the script was fascinating, and it's David, and I really want to work with David, but I read those two scenes and just went: "I don't think that I can do that," particularly because it's the age of the internet; it's gonna be everywhere.

'I phoned him up to really turn it down. I said to him, "Look, I love you, I love the script, I love the character, but I really don't know that I can play those scenes."

Leading men: Knightley was joined at the screening by co-stars Michael Fassbender (left) and Viggo Mortensen (right)

What's so funny? Knightley shares a joke with director David Cronenberg

'He said, "Look, if I'm gonna do them, then they're gonna be clinical; they're not gonna be sexy, they're not gonna be voyeuristic in that way.

'And I thought, "Okay, well I can understand that. As long as it's clinical and it's not some, sort of, weird sexy spanking thing."'

A Dangerous Method is released in the US on November 23 and in the UK in February 2012.

Passionate: Knightley plays Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, who has an affair with Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender)

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Keira Knightley makes a grand entrance in a beautifully decorated dress at the Italian film festival

A Venice peach: Keira Knightley makes a grand entrance in a beautifully decorated dress at the Italian film festival

By Marcus Barnes

Last updated at 5:51 PM on 2nd September 2011


As a veteran of the red carpet Keira Knightley knows how to make an entrance.

So today was a walk in the park for the actress who arrived at a photocall at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice for her new movie A Dangerous Method in an amazing patterned Mary Katrantzou dress.

Keira, 26, stepped off her boat and onto dry land, sashaying into the press area giving off a superlative air of cool in her black shades.

Dazzling: Keira Knightley sparkles in her Mary Katrantzou dress at a photocall for new movie A Dangerous Method at the Venice Film Festival

Oozing cool: The 26-year-old actress sashayed off her boat giving off a superlative air of chic

She completed her dazzling outfit with a pair of nude-coloured patent heels.

Keira was joined by co-stars Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon and Vincent Cassel at the photocall.

Set between 1904 and 1913, A Dangerous Method tackles the struggle between Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Fassbender) to establish their supremacy at the dawn of the era of psychoanalysis.

Star of the show: Keira was the main attraction at the photocall - here she gets a helping hand off her boat

Miss Knightley plays a troubled teenager named Sabina Spielrein who is at the centre of a clash between the two men.

She arrives at a Zurich hospital aged 18 to be treated by Jung.

In a distressing state, she's at human contact, twisting and contorting her body and face both in pain and terror.

Rave reviews: The actress really pushes herself in her new movie in which she plays a troubled young lady who is treated by psychoanalyst Carl Jung

Jung treats her though his 'talking method', getting her to relive her childhood, when her father used to beat her.

And, though he is married with children, Jung eventually admits to his repressed lust for Sabina and they embark on an affair.

Disturbingly, he indulges her in her fetish for being spanked.

Keira's performance in the film has already garnered rave reviews, her ability to convey the intensity of Sabina's condition in the movie's early scenes coming in for the most praise so far.

A Dangerous team: Keira with, from left, David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon and Vincent Cassel in Venice

Derek Malcom at the Evening Standard said of her performance: 'Though playing against two performers of considerable weight, she more than holds her own from the moment she arrives on the scene, a hysterical patient, to the time when her love for Jung is finally reciprocated.'

Meanwhile Keira's co-star in new movie Anna Karenina, Olivia Williams, has described her as a 'phenomenal actress'.

The are set to work together in the upcoming adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel which has British director Joe Wright at the helm and stars Aaron Johnson and Jude Law.

Olivia has no doubt that Keira would be confident in taking on the challenging title role.

She said: 'In some films you're on your own but in a Joe Wright film you're not on your own, it's a genuinely collaborative event and I think that she's a phenomenal actress with or without this incredible ensemble behind her.'

 

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