On the night, Casino went away with one win for best sound - plus a Rising Star award for Eva Green, who played Bond girl Vesper Lynd.

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The plot is no more than a thread: Barnabas must revive the Collins fortune whilst fending off the attentions, both amorous and savage, of a sorceress named Angelique (Eva Green).

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Much is made of the power play between the King of Jerusalem (a leper in a metal mask), his exotic and plainly loopy sister (Eva Green), his military adviser (Jeremy Irons), and a brace of leering villains (Marton Csokas and Brendan Gleeson).

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Speaking during the debate on 10 December 2012, French Green MEP Eva Joly said the agreement would "enshrine deep unfairness between the EU and Central America".

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Her Green party colleague from Austria, Eva Lichtenberger, agreed, saying that corporate governance should be backed up by "more than just pretty websites".

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Some local Socialist dissidents are running outside the party, in protest at the parachuting in of Green candidates (the Greens' Eva Joly got just 2.3% in the first round of the presidential election).

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