Italian screen siren Monica Bellucci on Tuesday won a Gerard, the French equivalent of the American Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, handed out for ''worst achievements in film''.
A panel of French journalists awarded the sultry Paris-based actress the ''Gerard for Female Desperation'' for her role in the film noir Le Deuxieme Souffle' (The Second Wind), in which she bleached her hair platinum blonde to play a gangster's deadly moll.
Bellucci had promised to ''make film-goers dream'' alongside Daniel Auteuil in French veteran Alain Corneau's remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's gritty noir classic from 1966, but the film received lukewarm reviews.
The worst film of the year Gerard went to Thomas Langmann's Asterix At The Olympic Games.
The Gerards, which take their name from French actor Gerard Depardieu, are traditionally handed out on the eve of the Cannes International Film Festival.
Bellucci will be treading the red carpet in Cannes this year for her lead role in acclaimed director Marco Tullio Giordana's Sanguepazzo, which will get a special out-of-competition screening.
Bellucci plays Mussolini-era movie diva Luisa Ferida, who fell for Fascist film star Osvaldo Valenti and met death with him at the hands of Italian partisans.
''I'm very happy to return to the festival, especially because it's the first time I'm going with an Italian film,'' Bellucci told women's weekly Donna Moderna.
