French TV channel TF1 used Marion Cotillard’s first public appearance in her home country since the Cannes Film Festival in May for a report during 50mn inside about her status as a star and actress, analyzing her choices such as taking a break from acting while showing footage of various events from this and past years. They pointed out that promoting Rust and Bone publicly and on talk shows could well lead to a new Oscar nomination. Furthermore, they discussed her collaboration with Dior. All in all, they said Marion Cotillard does what she wants – she’s thus an actrice libre – a free actress. Thanks to Luise for the clip!

By the way, gossip column Page Six from the New York Post reports that Marion, while making it to Thursday’s Rust and Bone screening in New York, was also delayed because of the snow storm. So she spent Wednesday night in a hotel in Detroit. I hope her lost luggage has since turned up.

Gallery: 165 TV Appearances etc > Specials > 50mn inside (TF1) – 10/11/2012
Video: 001 News Segments > 50mn inside

This totally slipped my mind. But on October 19 Dior Magazine announced the new Lady Dior campaign featuring Marion Cotillard. After a number of world cities Lady Dior has now visited the Hamptons and photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino captured her on the beach. Ads started appearing on the last October weekend in magazines such as Japanese Vogue, Elle, 25 Ans, Numéro, Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair U.S., Town & Country, Interview, American and French Elles and Madame Figaro (source).

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003 Lady Dior: Hamptons – Lady Hampton > Print Ads
068 Lady Dior: Hamptons – Lady Hampton > Print Ads – Behind the Scenes

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001 DVD Extras & Featurettes > Lady Dior Hampton – Behind the Scenes

During the last couple of weeks I added many missing pictures of Marion Cotillard at events this year.

013 Events in 2012 > Chaumet’s Cocktail Party and Dinner for Cesar’s Revelations
038 Events in 2012 > Costume Institute Gala “Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations”
004 Events in 2012 > 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival – Dior & Elle Magazine Party
001 Events in 2012 > 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival – Chopard Trophy Evening
060 Events in 2012 > Paris Fashion Week – Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter
009 Events in 2012 > Paris Fashion Week – Christian Dior Party
140 Events in 2012 > ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Premiere – New York
003 Events in 2012 > ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Premiere – After Party – New York
040 Events in 2012 > ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Premiere – London
011 Events in 2012 > ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Premiere – After Party – London
130 Events in 2012 > ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere – 56th BFI London Film Festival
084 Events in 2012 > 56th BFI London Film Festival – Marion Cotillard Screen Talk
165 Events in 2012 > 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala
011 Events in 2012 > ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere – AFI Fest

I recently added some additional pictures to the 1998, 1999 and 2000 public appearance categories. It was the time when Marion Cotillard was promoting Taxi, Guerre dans le Haut Pays, Lisa and Taxi 2.

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001 Events in 1998 > ‘Taxi’ Premiere – Marseille
003 Events in 1998 > ‘Taxi’ Premiere – 51st Annual Cannes Film Festival
001 Events in 1999 > 24th César Awards
001 Events in 1999 > Paris Film Festival
002 Events in 1999 > 52nd Annual Cannes Film Festival – 50 Years Uni France
001 Events in 1999 > 15th La Fete du Cinema
001 Events in 1999 > 13th Cabourg Romantic Film Festival – Ceremony
002 Events in 1999 > ‘Taxi’ – Celebrating 1 Million Videos
001 Events in 1999 > Paris Fashion Week – Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter
010 Events in 1999 > Paris Fashion Week – Plan Americain Haute Couture Autumn/Winter
006 Events in 2000 > ‘Lisa’ Premiere – Paris
003 Events in 2000 > Cartier’s new jewellery collection ‘Perles et Diamants’
001 Events in 2000 > Cartier’s new watch ’21′
002 Events in 2000 > ‘Taxi 2′ Premiere – Paris
003 Events in 2000 > 53rd Cannes Film Festival – ‘In the Mood for Love’ Premiere
002 Events in 2000 > ‘Taxi 2′ Video Premiere

As previously announced, Marion Cotillard attended the Unveiling of the Dior Christmas Window Displays at the Parisian department store Printemps Haussmann yesterday early evening.

At the event she also talked about Christmas and travelling:

It was a bit of a battle for my mother. I didn’t really like Christmas when I was little, so I didn’t want any gifts, so the tradition was my mother figuring out how she was going to get me to pick something. Gifts are something I prefer to give. It’s always nice to get one, but I like searching for a present, I like thinking of a person and finding that special something that they are going to like.

Well, you know, you sleep, you rest. People live in terrible situations. Traveling is not that terrible.

Read the full article:
• Marion Cotillard: From New York to Paris, WWD, November 9, 2012

Dior Magazine has some videos of the actual window & store decorations as well as how the dolls were made: Exclusively Dior & Doll Delight.

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060 100 Events in 2012 > Printemps Haussmann Christmas Illuminations Launch
027 Award Shows & Premieres etc > Printemps Haussmann Christmas Illuminations Launch – 2012

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002 Other Public Appearances > Printemps Christmas Illuminations

On her way from the US west coast to France, Marion Cotillard attended a screening of ‘Rust and Bone‘ (De rouille et d’os) at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York on Thursday evening. It was hosted by The Cinema Society with Dior & Vanity Fair. She was wearing a transparent Christian Dior Spring 2013 dress with black pointy Dior heels (which reportedly caused some problems). Co-star Matthias Schoenaerts & director Jacques Audiard were delayed due to the snowstorm and only arrived in time for the after party at Indochine – which Marion however had to miss since she had to catch her flight to France.

On the red carpet Vulture asked Marion Cotillard about how she feels when she hears the Katy Perry song ‘Firework’:
• Marion Cotillard Is Not a Big Katy Perry Fan, Vulture, November 10

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046 Events in 2012 > ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere – New York
062 Award Shows & Premieres etc > ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere – New York – 2012

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001 Other Public Appearances > 2012 Rust and Bone New York Screening

from Vulture / by Jamie Sharpe

In Rust & Bone, Marion Cotillard plays a ­killer-whale trainer who loses her legs when one of her orca routines goes tragically wrong. It’s an intense scene in an intense movie. But what’s truly noteworthy is that the routine-gone-wrong is conducted to Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Honestly. And so at last night’s Cinema Society screening, Vulture asked Cotillard what she thought of the song choice.

“I think it’s a good choice for such a horrific event. It’s very expressive.” Okay, but is the song ruined for her now? Like, while the rest of us hear it and think of showing them what we’re worth — does she hear it and think of whale attacks? “Well, I’m not a big Katy Perry fan,” she said, “but the song had a big impact on me. Now when I hear it, I feel uncomfortable. It makes me, not exactly sad, but it’s hard for me to listen to. I tense up, and I feel very emotional.”

Understandable, but let’s back up: You’re not a Katy Perry fan? What about “Teenage Dream”? Does she not listen to it on occasion? “No,” Cotillard laughed. “Not really.” As for whether Perry’s bestie Rihanna is more Cotillard’s speed, she told us, “I don’t listen to Rihanna very much, but I met her once and I think she is stunning. It was very quickly at the Met Ball, and I couldn’t take my eyes off her all night. It’s impossible not to stare at her. But, unfortunately, it’s not my kind of music.”

from Interview Magazine (US) / by Nathan Reese

Last night, the stars of French drama Rust and Bone—including the inimitable Marion Cotillard—gathered at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema Theater in New York City for a screening of Jacques Audiard’s lyrical new drama. Presented by The Cinema Society, along with Dior, for whom Cotillard is the current face, the event featured attendees including Helena Christensen, Olivier Theyskens, Debbie Harry, and Game of Thrones‘ Gwendoline Christie, who looked just as striking without her armor.

For fans of contemporary European cinema, though, it was the names Audiard, Cotillard, and co-star Matthias Schoenaerts that were the real draw. Audiard took home a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2009′s wrenching prison melodrama A Prophet, while Schoenaerts starred in 2011′s Bullhead, an Academy Award-nominated Belgian drama about the corrupt dealings of West-Flemish beef trade.

Cotillard, who needs no introduction after starring in the Christopher Nolan smashes Inception and The Dark Knight Rises and as Edith Piaf in the Oscar-winning La vie en rose, sparkled in head-to-toe Dior. Unfortunately, beauty isn’t without its price, and when Interview approached her to talk about her role, Cotillard’s evening in precarious heels was getting the better of her. “My feet. Are. Dying!” exclaimed Cotillard a candid moment, before asking—quite sincerely—”I cannot take off my shoes, right?” (She later did, and no one blamed her for walking the last few feet of the red carpet barefoot.)

While Audiard’s movies are often neorealistic portrayals of tension and violence, from the Corsican mobsters and Arab prisoners in A Prophet, to the story of a hoodlum who dreams of playing piano in The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Rust and Bone narrows its view to the unlikely love story of two quite literally damaged individuals. Cotillard plays an Orca trainer by the name of Stéphanie, who loses her legs in an accident, while Schoenaerts plays a reluctant nightclub bouncer and single parent.

“I never expect anything,” said Cotillard, when we asked her about working with Audiard. “Even when I’m really excited like I was working with him. I knew he was a director, but I discovered a poet—an energy. Someone who loves actors and the stories he tells. Everything is very vibrant with him.”

A large part of Cotillard’s portrayal of Stéphanie is her remarkable ability to bring raw physicality her character: “I tried to watch footage of people with amputated legs to see how they move. Then [I] very quickly felt that I didn’t need it. I thought I would experience how it was. I would explore with her as she explored. Sometimes I wore prosthetics so I couldn’t move,” said Cotillard, who spent much of her time on set in a wheelchair.

Asked about what she had known about killer whales before filming, Cotillard confessed that it wasn’t much. “Well, I studied Orcas, because I didn’t know anything about them. And I took swimming lessons,” she said.

Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir elaborated: “The film is incredibly beautiful. It’s so well written, so well acted. It’s stunning. It’s also harrowing in its intensity. Marion and Matthias are incredibly captivating. Their performances are so rich and so textured.”

While Cotillard had to catch a midnight plane back to Paris, the rest of the cast and crew went straight from the screening to NoHo restaurant Indochine, where guests ate various skewered appetizers and sipped on Belvedere “Rust and Bone Mojitos” (they taste a lot better than they sound) as they discussed the film’s lingering emotions.

from WWD / by Matthew Lynch and Joelle Diderich

Marion Cotillard was barefoot on the press line at the Landmark Sunshine Theater in New York City on Thursday night. The Cinema Society and Dior were holding a screening of the Oscar-winning actress’ latest film, “Rust and Bone.” Sometime between walking for photographers and making it to the press line, she had passed her heels off to a publicist.

“I am so sorry, I feel very bad,” she explained, motioning to the towering footwear. “I had no choice.”

The apology was unnecessary. As a stream of rosy cheeked and heavily jacketed moviegoers arrived out of the Manhattan chill behind her and the carpeted floor went buckshot with dropped popcorn kernels, her decision to lose the heels seemed, as a relative matter, brave. The early winter storm in New York left Cotillard as the film’s sole standard bearer at the screening. Its director, Jacques Audiard, had been grounded and her co-star, Matthias Schoenaerts, would only arrive in time for the after party at Indochine. But by the time the first drinks were being poured, Cotillard would be off, due in Paris to unveil the Christmas windows at Printemps, designed in partnership with Dior. (She is after all the face of the Lady Dior handbag.)

On the Landmark Sunshine carpet, Cotillard dutifully fielded questions about her role in the broody French romance, in which she plays an amusement park killer whale trainer.

“I went once and I hated it,” she said of her preparations. “I don’t like to see those animals in that situation….The trainers [though] even though I don’t really get what’s happening in those places — how we do that — they were passionate about their job. And they really made my experience easy.”

About 16 hours later, Cotillard had made it to Printemps. Flanked by Dior chief executive officer Sidney Toledano, Printemps ceo Paolo de Cesare and Claude Martinez, president and ceo of Parfums Christian Dior, she pulled the curtain on a whimsical display of mechanical puppets in front of hundreds of onlookers at the department store’s flagship on Boulevard Haussmann.

Toledano said the window puppets were wearing miniature replicas of Dior designs spanning from the house’s groundbreaking New Look collection of 1947 to the creations of its new creative director, Raf Simons — all produced in its couture workshop on Avenue Montaigne.

“Our workshops enjoy a challenge — they have had harder tasks. This was a pretty fun project for them,” he said. Toledano said Dior has been collaborating with department stores since its inception, noting that founder Christian Dior made personal appearances at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman back in 1947.

“In this case, 10 million people are going to pass on this thoroughfare during the Christmas period alone, so can you imagine the extraordinary impact it’s going to have?” he asked. “Some children will be filled with wonder, and among these children, there might even be a future Paris couturier. This is my wish.”

At a cocktail reception held at the Ladurée tea salon inside the store, Cotillard revealed that as a child, she was not big on Christmas traditions. “It was a bit of a battle for my mother. I didn’t really like Christmas when I was little, so I didn’t want any gifts, so the tradition was my mother figuring out how she was going to get me to pick something,” she said.

She has since grown to love Christmas, though she is still not that keen on presents.

“Gifts are something I prefer to give. It’s always nice to get one, but I like searching for a present, I like thinking of a person and finding that special something that they are going to like,” she said.

She will be back on an airplane in a matter of days to reprise her role as Joan of Arc in Arthur Honegger’s 1938 oratorio “Joan of Arc at the Stake,” which is being performed in Barcelona on Nov. 17 and 18. Cotillard will recite her text surrounded by a symphonic orchestra and three choirs. In New York, she was undaunted about the near constant flight.

“Well, you know, you sleep, you rest,” she said. “People live in terrible situations. Traveling is not that terrible.”

After flying in from London and appearing on the Jay Leno Show last week but before attending the US Gala Premiere of ‘Rust & Bone‘ at the AFI Fest on Monday, Marion Cotillard (and co-star Matthias Schoenaerts, director Jacques Audiard and co-writer Thomas Bidegain) spent a weekend promoting the movie at press junkets and during Q&As at industry screenings.

HitFix.com were among those interviewing Marion Cotillard on Saturday morning and will later post their interview.

Later that day, there was a SAG AFTRA screening at the Harmony Gold theater. During the Q&A she praised Chris Nolan and said “When it’s meant to be, love will find a way.” (Sources on Twitter: Serena Orrego, Grégoire Swan, Ana Parsons, Satu Makeda, Logan McPeak, Patricia Gold and Josh the Intern)

Then, on Sunday, there was another Q&A held by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater:

Gallery: 045 Award Shows & Premieres etc > ‘Rust and Bone’ Q&A – Academy Conversations – 2012
Video: 001 Other Public Appearances