from Fashion Week Daily / by Valentine Uhovski

Dior and French Elle host a dinner in honor of Marion Cotillard in Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc

Those who spent nearly seven hours at Du Cap during the epic amfAR gala were destined to return to the venue…the very next night. Marion Cotillard and Dior were certainly worthy Eden Roc causes, as French Elle hosted a dinner to honor the Oscar winner and the latest John Galliano muse. “Being Lady Dior is fabulous,” Cotillard decided while looking out to the port of the Antibes. “I meet beautiful people and go to amazing parties. But most of all I love John; he’s so unique and creative. I like people who take risks, and he’s the boldest designer of them all.”

It turned out, of course, that nearly everyone in attendance was in turn a fan of the actress. “There’re very few luminous and absolutely transcending actresses in our generations,” said Sidney Toledano. “Women that could take your breath away like Sharon Stone, Monica Belucci…Marion is certainly in that magical league.” “Besides being a phenomenal actress, she’s very modern and intelligent woman,” added Delphine Arnault. “She makes us all want to dream!” Other Dior dreamers and guests included the actress’ Nine producer Harvey Weinstein with wife Georgina Chapman, Alex de Betak, Natasha Poly, Ed Chapman and Patrick Demarchelier.

As guests sat down for dinner, Eugenia Silva took in the view and admitted that she learned to pace herself during the festival. “I was here in the very beginning, and just came back for this dinner. You need to have an escape plan during the Festival,” she offered. “Otherwise, you’ll be trapped in the five hotels that host an endless string of parties here.” As everyone toasted the woman of the hour with champagne, Cotillard admitted to harboring one tiny regret. “I get to wear amazing Dior dresses, but I don’t get to keep them,” she smiled. “They all go into this magical archive!”

from Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) / by Lisa Harvey

MARION COTILLARD LOSES HER FRENCH ACCENT AND TAKES ON MIDDLE AMERICA IN HER NEW MOVIE, PUBLIC ENEMIES

Renowned French actress Marion Cotillard has taken on more and more American movies and has just finished making Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. She talks about her life as an itinerant gypsy as she travels the world for her roles and what it was like to star next to one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Johnny Depp.

So where are you based at the moment?

I live where I work, so I was African these past months but I am still from France, definitely.

Yes, it’s been a long time since I have been in my country. I love to travel, I miss my friends and family that’s all.

Are you fine with this gypsy kind of lifestyle?

For the moment, yes. I know that it will not be my whole life and one day I will like maybe take some time off and stay in my house with friends. I love to meet people, I love to meet different cultures I think it is, yes, it’s rich, the word is rich, so many things that I want to discover that I am very happy with this gypsy kind of life.

You stay in hotels?

Hotels, yes. When I did Michael Mann’s movie (Public Enemies) we were for four months in Chicago so I lived in an apartment there, because I am French so I need a kitchen to cook sometimes and to have I think a healthy life you need to you know have your home bedroom and make a bed in the morning.

So you are very particular about what you eat?

I don’t know, I love to cook, and French love good food. Well in Chicago you can really find very, very good food. It’s just that I like to know what I eat.

What was it about Public Enemies that made you think – I have to do it?

I didn’t know anything about the Dillinger case and before, well I read the script and I started to do some re-search about American history — this tough period of the Depression and the creation of the FBI and I thought it was so interesting.

I think that what I love in this story, in the movie, is that you can feel in each character the failure and the violence, the pain of this period. You can see it in Dillinger, you can see it in Melvin Purvis you can see it in [my character] Billie Frechette. You can see it in all the characters and I think it’s beautiful to make you feel what was this period was like.

Tell us about your character in the movie, she falls in love with the most cruel gangster in the world.

Not cruel.

Not a killer?

Oh no, he was not a killer. Not really.

She still loves him.

It’s just that guy spent 10 years in prison for a robbery for a mistake because he was young and because he was so hard.

America at that time especially where he lived it was so hard, I mean they had no money, they felt left aside by the government, it was really, really tough.

This guy tried to rob, I mean the grocery store, he knew the guy, he loved the guy it was just a really like a stupid mistake, a stupid thing to do. He spent 10 years because they wanted to make him an example. It’s terrible and instead of going to school he goes to jail, he knew nothing, he didn’t know any better.

You are doing more and more American movies. Is it something you did on purpose since in the French industry people were so jealous or envious of you, you needed to escape?

No, I have never thought of my work this way. I was in Los Angeles when I had this amazing opportunity to meet Michael Mann, I couldn’t believe it and I met him and I loved him right away.

I wanted to give everything I could to that guy and as I said before I loved the story because it was more than a gangster movie, he tells much more about just guns and robbing banks and I had met Rob Marshall [director of Nine] before and it was like that.

It was not, I have to do that and I have to do this. I couldn’t do something that I don’t believe in, I would be very, very bad at it.

So how much did the Oscars change you?

I think that what has changed, things in my life was the movie La Vie en Rose and the Oscar is like the proof of the change. It has changed.

Are you more confident now?

No, not, I am not more confident, I wish I could be but I am not.

It just brings me all the beautiful opportunities to meet some people that I loved for ever that I have admired forever and each time my American agent called me and said, this director would like to meet with you, this director would like to offer you a role, its magical each time.

I will not get used to it, it’s amazing.

How was it to star alongside Johnny Depp?

I was very, very nervous. I was nervous because it was my first movie after La Vie en Rose, not that it was the one after, it was more because that I hadn’t worked for two years. I mean I had work, publicity and everything but being on a set with someone else, giving life to someone, so I was very nervous, I was very nervous about the accent because I had to nail a mid western American accent which I think was impossible so.

You did a great job.

Thank you. But he was so nice to me. He saw right away that I was very nervous and he reassured me, he was very nice, he has a huge respect of people and things. He is a real gentleman, he is an amazing actor so I knew that when you work with an amazing actor it makes you be better than if you work with someone who is totally out of it.

You’ve said that the French are very proud of your performance but they want you to stay in France, to not stray away from France. Is that something you still feel?

I just don’t know it’s to stay in France, but it’s French like the underdog. And if you are too successful its weird.

Is France always the underdog in moves?

No, but they will find something to put you down if you are too high.

Are you a little afraid of that? Are you feeling that now?

This is a part of me that you have to protect not to be hurt by mean things. I do my job, I try to do my job the best I can. I love it, I am very happy of what happens, so I don’t want to destroy this by being hurt by bad energy.

With the gracious help of Mariana I’ve filled the existing Cannes albums with more lovely Marion pictures. Enjoy!

I know I haven’t added the Elle HQ scans or the Le Grand Journal screencaptures & clips (view) yet and Marion will soon be attending the special Lady Dior dinner in her honor but unfortunately, I’m leaving town and will be without internet access for the rest of the week. Check back Sunday evening to find more Marion news & pictures. Thanks for your patience!

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Tomorrow the Olivier Dahan directed Lady Dior short film will premiere on LadyDior.com. If you can’t wait till then and want to see it in lower quality already watch below:

AFP reports that Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent et Vincent Pérez among other stars will be recording a song during the Cannes Film Festival for the “Global Humanitarian Forum” – a foundation presided over by Kofi Annan. The song should help sensitize the public as well as politicians for the protection of our planet. Other celebrities who’ll be lending their voice to the song include Bill Clinton, Clint Eastwood and tennis champion Yannick Noah.

The song will be a new version of “Beds Are Burning” by Midnight Oil (listen to the original). The band has written new lyrics especially for this occasion. The song will be available as of June 25th to download for free. A representative of the band’s music label “The Hours”, Alexandre Sap, want this to become the most downloaded song in the world.

After handing out the Chopard trophies to the young actors Marion Cotillard together with Guillaume Canet joined many stars for the official Chopard Trophy Evening at the Baoli restaurant – where DJ Stéphane Pompougnac provided the entertainment.

And surprise, she completely changed her outfit: she wore a lovely midnight blue bustier dress (matching with Guillaume’s elegant midnight blue/black suit), a more natural make up, beige high heels and a similar necklace but this time around with a dark jewel instead of a white one. Reportedly, this was because the other dress was torn and it caused her to arrive 3 hours late. But who cares, see the result in the gallery. I also added a few more pictures to the previous Cannes galleries.

Watch a short video summary of the actual Chopard Trophy Ceremony on this year’s co-host Premiere magazine’s website.

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002 The Weinstein Company Celebrates ‘Nine’

As expected Marion Cotillard, together with Hilary Swank, handed out the Chopard Trophy at the Martinez Hotel earlier tonight. The winners were Léa Seydoux and The Reader star David Krauss.

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I’ve added an article from someone who met Marion Cotillard at the annual Gaumont lunch, where she was promoting Le dernier vol. She revealed her 2008 Halloween costume:

• Cotillard on a Tear, Hollywood.com

Marion Cotillard celebrated ‘Nine‘ together with the movie’s producer The Weinstein Company earlier today. Her co-star Penélope Cruz was supposed to stand next to her. Unfortunately, she was sidelined by “some sort of food poisoning.” People.com reports:

Harvey Weinstein passed on the bad news to a select group of journalists. He then introduced Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, another star of the ensemble piece. “It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical,” Cotillard said. “I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.”

Weinstein added, “When you see [Cotillard] sing, when you see her dance, we bring back a tradition that we need to do more of.”

019 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival – The Weinstein Company Celebrates ‘Nine’

My husband makes movies.
To make them he lives a kind
of dream, in which his emotions
aren’t always what they seem.
- Luisa Contini

Translated by Mia

Transcript (translated) of Marion Cotillard’s TV interview “Le grand journal” in Cannes

She received a Best Actress Oscar for “La Vie en Rose” in 2008, she’s Hollywood’s favourite French star, she’s just finished shooting films with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and soon also with Leonardo DiCaprio, this is her first TV interview since the Oscars, here’s Marion Cotillard.

Le Grand Journal: Marion Cotillard is the only actress in the world to have wond the BAFTA, Golden Globe, César and the Oscar for a leading role, which is in her case “La Vie en Rose”. I imagine this changes a life. Has it changed your life?

Marion Cotillard: A little bit surely. I’ve had the opportunity to meet exceptional people and to work with them. I work more.

Mostly in Hollywood? In the United States? In France it hadn’t been a problem, but in the United States?

It’s true I had never imagined this when I became an actress. But I’ve just finished working on a film in France, so it’s well balanced.

I’d say it’s true that you’re the Queen of Cannes this year. This has not always been the case. After all, you have plenty of bad memories from the Cannes Festival. What happened?

I think that Cannes has its very good sides but also sides which are a bit more oppressing. When I came here I was a very young actress, and I’m not someone who feels at ease in this kind of situations, so I had some big moments of loneliness.

But now this is no longer the case. We will see you on French cinema screens July 8 in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. In the film you’re Johnny Depp’s girlfriend. He plays John Dillinger, a bandit of the 30ies, some kind of Robin Hood, a bank robber who turns out to be really likeable.

This period of time in the movie is very particular. In the 30ies, and especially in that area, life during the depression in the US was very hard. There were people who found money, or can find it and he took part of it. Contrary to other people in that period, especially Bonnie & Clyde, he’s a gangster but not a murderer. He was a gentleman who started robbing banks to get his friends out of prison. He spent 10 years in prison for breaking into a grocery shop. They wanted to make an example of him. He really went to school in prison, he learned how to break into banks with cars. At that time they didn’t really use cars to get away real fast.

You’ve said that Johnny Depp was a very reassuring costar when you were very worried about starting to work again after the immense success of “La Vie en Rose” and that he was a real gentleman with you. Very elegant in every sense of the word.

Yes that’s true. Generally, when I arrive on a film site I’m always in the same condition of doubt.

You’ve even said that you’ve doubled in size because you were under so much stress…

How do you know that?!

I just know! That you had physical symptoms and that you had doubled in size. Did you eat loads of chips?!

Well yes, it was the United States, what do you want! I love burgers a lot and for two weeks I just ate ate ate! No, seriously, I react physically when I’m under a huge amount of stress. While doing “A very long engagement” by Jean-Pierre Jeunet for example I became ill just before filming because I was convinced that I was the wrong person for the job, that I would do a bad job… And here I had… I don’t even know what it’s called! I swelled up. A lot actually. My lip was here (pointing to the nose).

We’re now going to see the trailer of the film, which is released July 8.

(Public Enemies Trailer)

We will see you in the musical “Nine” with Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, vous, Sophia Loren, Judie Dench and Kate Hudson. What ‘hallucinating’ cast! You will later shoot another movie, it’s official now, called “Inception” with Leonoardo DiCaprio.

This is Chris Nolan’s next movie, who also made the 2 last “Batman”.

Isn’t there a moment when you say: ‘But I’m dreaming, I pinch myself, this is a dream.” Do you still say that?

Absolutely! But I’m in a… I have been in a state of astonishment for quite some time now. I’ve always dreamed of doing this job and then I got the part in Rob Marshall’s film, the musical, which had been a dream of mine since I was just a kid, to be in an American musical. I find that I’m enormously lucky.

How do you view French cinema now? Is it different? Do they have a different method? Because Olivier Dahan now also made a film over there?

Personally, I think that each film is different. I think there are as many differences between a huge French production and an American independent film as there are between a huge American production and a French independent film… I’m just babbling now, no? Anyway, just to say that each adventure is different.

Don’t you feel that there may be points in which they’re better? Better organized? More structured? Or else faults?

Well it’s true that their organization goes like clockwork. But I’ve been asked this question often enough already and I can’t really find a good response because…

Maybe size of the trailer changes?!

Yeah !

Ok, just a word about French cinema. Right now, to see you in a French film one just has to find what Guillaume Canet is up to. That is in the films he stars in or directs. That’s a coincidence?

It’s a total coincidence in fact! I accepted Karim Dridi’s film “Le dernier vol” 1,5 years, almost 2 years, ago when there hadn’t yet been an actor attached to the project .

And in “Les petits mouchoirs”, the film which Guillaume is just finishing writing.

You’re really protecting your private life which shows that it’s possible.

Yes, it’s true that I’m quite discreet about that yes. As are many others by the way. Practicably, it’s possible.

Apart from the fact that Marion’s multiple former co-star (Love Me If You Dare and The Last Flight) and boyfriend Guillaume Canet is the script author and director of her new movie Les Petits Mouchoirs there are more connections. She will be re-united with former co-stars Gilles Lelouche (Love Me If You Dare and Ma vie en l’air) and Benoit Magimel (Lisa and Fair Play). Other cast members include Francois Cluzet, Anne Marivin and Jean Dujardin.

Here’s the synopsis for the $25 million tragicomedy which is scheduled to shoot for 12 weeks starting August 3 (4 in Paris, 8 in Cap Ferret):

A generational tragicomedy, “Mouchoirs” follows a group of friends from Paris to the coast at Cap Ferret near Bordeaux for their traditional summer holiday together. But the mood sobers as characters confess their innermost concerns.

“In the vein of ‘The Big Chill’ and ‘Peter’s Friends,’ ‘Mouchoirs’ mixes moments of high comedy and large emotions,” Attal said at Cannes, where he’s shopping Canet’s script to sales agents, distributors and Gallic TV operators.

source: Variety