AMALFI: Curvy Eva Mendes takes a dip off the Italian coast - and makes other women sea-green with envy.

Like the title of her last film, the Hollywood actress got into The Spirit of things by splashing around and squealing at the waves.

Eva, 35, is in Amalfi with her boyfriend George Gargurevich for the 2009 Giffoni Film Festival.

During the fortnight-long event she is working as an awards juror and will be presented with one herself.

But she managed to find some time for pleasure too - and showed off her finest trophies in a skimpy black string bikini.

A fellow bather said: "Fellas couldn't believe it when Eva joined them for a dip. She got loads of admiring glances."

Perhaps she was fishing for compliments . . .