The Guardian Unlimited – Saturday 15th May, 1999

By Fiachra Gibbons.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane? Oh no, it’s a vampire cow. The strangest sight so far on the Croisette other than Claudia Schiffer taking an ‘informal stroll’ with several hundred paparazzi is a huge inflatable Freisian. Since it is tethered to an Armani shop, it was first taken as a wry comment on the way designers make moos of themselves every year competing to dress the stars.

Now all is revealed. It’s to say that Richard E Grant has started shooting the Little Vampire, which features herds of blood-thirsty heifers. ‘Being British, he should be well used to crazy cows,’ its French publicists rather cattily tell us.