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Archive for the ‘2007’ Category

Globe nominee Cotillard has rosy future

from LA Daily News / by Greg Hernandez
t’s always nice to talk with someone when they are having a good day.
Thursday was a very good day for Marion Cotillard, who called from Paris in good spirits because she had just been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her acclaimed performance in […]

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• Posted by Maria on December 14, 2007 in categories: 2007

Globe nominees speak out

from The Hollywood Reporter
“I’m in the old section of Paris drinking Edith Piaf’s favorite champagne, Bollinger, which has become mine,” said exuberant “La Vie en Rose” star Marion Cotillard of her best musical actress nomination. “The first big reaction was when it did well in France, and then the film got recognition all around the […]

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• Posted by Maria on December 14, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard’s Golden Moment

from E! Online / by Marc Malkin
“Champagne.”
That’s how Marion Cotillard plans to celebrate her Golden Globe nomination. “I am really enjoying every minute and second of it!”
Cotillard is on the phone with me from Paris, where she says she didn’t find out she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy (for her […]

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• Posted by Maria on December 13, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard - Lead Actress: ‘La Vie en rose’

from Variety / by Robert Hofler
Regardless of what the French think of Yanks, they love American movies — and Marion Cotillard is no exception. Even though she first acted onstage as a 4-year-old child with her thesp parents, the actress got the real urge to perform from a most unlikely cinematic source.
“A major movie moment […]

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• Posted by Maria on December 7, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard’s Life in Pink

from The Los Angeles Times / by William Georgiades
Marion Cotillard can’t escape Edith Piaf, nor is she trying to: She’s enjoying it.
NEW YORK — MARION Cotillard has appeared in more than 40 movies, including Tim Burton’s “Big Fish,” Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year,” Luc Besson’s “Taxi” movies and, most recently, “La Vie en Rose,” in […]

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• Posted by Maria on December 5, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard on ‘La Vie en Rose’ — and awards

from The Envelope / by Tom O’Neil
“La Vie en Rose” star and Oscars best-actress contender Marion Cotillard described the tragic superstar she portrays in the film, Edith Piaf, as “an extreme character who attracted extreme events in her life” when Cotillard and I chatted recently in New York City.
The daughter of a circus contortionist, […]

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• Posted by Maria on November 23, 2007 in categories: 2007

Award-winning transformations: Becoming Edith Piaf

from The Envelope / by Elizabeth Snead
Marion Cotillard on performing Edith Piaf.
In “La Vie en Rose,” Marion Cotillard was given the role of a lifetime: bring back to life the tiny, turbulent and tyrannical French singer/songwriter Edith Piaf.
Piaf’s story is the stuff of legend. She was abandoned by her parents, raised in a brothel, then […]

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• Posted by Maria on October 26, 2007 in categories: 2007

Maid Marion

from NY Times T: Fashion & Beauty Winter 2007 / by Lynn Hirschberg
In “La Vie en Rose,” you play Edith Piaf from age 17 to her death at 47. Piaf was a brilliant singer, but she was also a drug addict with a deeply dramatic personality. Was it challenging to play a woman who was […]

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• Posted by Maria on October 21, 2007 in categories: 2007

Watch out for… Marion Cotillard

from The Envelope (The Los Angeles Times) / by Deborah Netburn
She’s the darling of film festivals with her portrayal of Edith Piaf in ‘La Vie en Rose.’
This awards season it’s all about Marion Cotillard.
She’s the 31-year-old French actress whose performance as Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose” left critics desperately searching for new words […]

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• Posted by Maria on September 27, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard

from Under the Radar Magazine, Web Exclusive (US) / by Chris Tinkham
Breathtaking is a word that usually is not used literally, but go to a screening of La Vie en Rose, writer-director Olivier Dahan’s chronicle of the life of French singer and icon Édith Piaf, and listen to the folks seated near you at the […]

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• Posted by Maria on August 6, 2007 in categories: 2007

Women’s Impact Report - Marion Cotillard

from Variety / by Peter Debruge
‘La Vie en rose’ thesp an Oscar contender
She’s one of the year’s first real Oscar contenders, which is no small feat considering how few Americans will recognize Marion Cotillard when they see “La Vie en rose.” Even in her native France, where Cotillard co-starred in the first three installments of […]

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• Posted by Maria on July 30, 2007 in categories: 2007

Birds of a feather

from The Age (Australia) / Stephanie Bunbury
In an extraordinary turn as France’s ”little sparrow”, Marion Cotillard’s Edith Piaf is almost better than the original, writes Stephanie Bunbury.
All the time she was shooting La Vie en Rose, says Marion Cotillard, she barely slept at night. Edith Piaf, the peerless French chanteuse whose life was being brought […]

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• Posted by Maria on July 15, 2007 in categories: 2007

No regrets as Piaf lives again

from Adelaide Now (Australia) / by Kirsten Heysen
WHAT became a labour of love could earn an Oscar for the rising French star Marion Cotillard, who plays Edith Piaf in a new movie.
La Vie En Rose, directed by Olivier Dahan, follows legendary French singer Edith Piaf’s turbulent life from her childhood (she was born in 1915) to […]

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• Posted by Maria on July 15, 2007 in categories: 2007

Piaf soars again

from Sunday Herald Sun (Australia) / by Lawrie Masterson
EDITH Piaf’s descent into drugs, booze, chronic arthritis and cancer was savage and swift. She died at 47, although in her final years she “looked 70 and acted like a child”, according to Marion Cotillard, the French actor who plays her with such distinction in La Vie […]

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• Posted by Maria on July 8, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion has no regrets either

from The Courier-Mail (Australia) / by Ryan Gilbey
FANS of French actress Marion Cotillard dropped their croissants in shock when it was announced she had been cast as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.
Not that she hadn’t proved herself, in a handful of roles, to be one of cinema’s most playful and thrilling new talents.
Critics […]

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• Posted by Maria on July 7, 2007 in categories: 2007

A rosy future French actress’ research allows her to inhabit Piaf role

from Back Stage West / by Sarah Kuhn
Even before taking on the role of Edith Piaf in the biopic “La Vie en Rose,” Marion Cotillard felt a connection to the iconic French singer. Cotillard often uses music to prepare for particularly emotional scenes and has a few of Piaf’s songs in her play list. “I […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 26, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard vs. the Calendar

from FilmStew.com / by Brett Buckalew
It’s already a strong year for female lead performances. Too bad the Academy generally only has eyes for the fourth quarter.
The last four months of each year is a time for the film industry to quit its summertime tomfoolery and start putting out the serious-minded prestige films that get the […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 15, 2007 in categories: 2007

Magnifique!

from The Telegraph (UK) / by Benjamin Secher
Actress Marion Cotillard talks to Benjamin Secher about her performance of a lifetime as legendary French singer Edith Piaf
‘The first time I heard Edith Piaf sing, I cried,” says 31-year-old Marion Cotillard, who plays the legendary French singer in a heartbreaking new biopic, La Vie en rose. “I […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 9, 2007 in categories: 2007

Capturing the Sparrow

from The Star Ledger (US) / by Stephen Whitty
French actress faced challenge in playing Piaf
“You have to struggle,” the slight, saucer-eyed star says, leaning forward and speaking in an intense French accent. “You have to have your heart broken. That’s the reality of life and if you are protected from this sadness, then how can […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 9, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard talks about being Edith Piaf

from Reelz Channel (US) / by Heather Huntington
Our interview with the explosive star of La Vie en Rose.
You may not think you’ve seen Marion Cotillard before, but you’d probably be wrong. The stunning French actress has actually crossed over to American film a while ago, including roles in Big Fish and A Good Year.
This Friday […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 8, 2007 in categories: 2007

Interview: Marion Cotillard

from Ioncinema.com (US) / by Benjamin Crossley-Marra
If you met Marion Cotillard in person you probably wouldn’t draw any association with France’s beloved icon Edith Piaf. Marion is tall, demure and extremely striking. Edith was diminutive, held a slight hunchback never bothered to carry herself in an overly lady-like manner. But a peculiar aura surrounds them […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 7, 2007 in categories: 2007

Living La Vie en Rose

from ComingSoon.net (US) / by Edward Douglas
There are two reasons why La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan’s new biopic about the life of legendary French singer Edith Piaf, might be one of the best movies of the year so far. The first is how the filmmaker created a non-linear visual portrait of Piaf’s life through her […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 7, 2007 in categories: 2007

A star is reborn

from Time Out Chicago (US) / by Cliff Doerksen
Actress Marion Cotillard takes on the role of a lifetime in ‘La Vie en Rose’.
To say that legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf (1915–1963) is an icon of French culture is a bit like saying that Elvis Presley has a healthy following in the U.S. This week a new […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 6, 2007 in categories: 2007

No regrets

from Time Out New York (US) / by Elisabeth Vincentelli
Marion Cotillard finds herself by losing herself—in Edith Piaf.
Biopic acting is its very own beast, as thespians maneuver to avoid both reverent imitation and showy histrionics. The challenge is even greater when the subject is known as a singularly magnetic performer. Such is the burden that fell […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 6, 2007 in categories: 2007

Being Edith

from The Village Voice (US) / by Leslie Camhi
Already generating Oscar buzz, Marion Cotillard chats about channeling her inner chanteuse
I’d last seen Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, director Olivier Dahan’s film about the life of the great French singer Edith Piaf. Born in destitution on the streets of Paris, Piaf reached the summits […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 6, 2007 in categories: 2007

Variety Columnist Liz Smith

from Variety (US) / by Liz Smith
HAD LUNCH with Marion Cotillard who plays France’s great singer Edith Piaf in the hot film “La Vie en Rose.” This young Frenchwoman has made 10 films, speaks perfect English, resembles a combo of Natalie Portman and Winona Ryder, and gives an astounding performance as “The Little Sparrow.” Marion […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 4, 2007 in categories: 2007

The soul of the Sparrow

from New York Daily News (US) / by Marshall Fine
Marion Cotillard embodies Edith Piaf in ‘La Vie en Rose’
When Marion Cotillard strides into the room - tall, svelte, commanding - it seems impossible that this could be the same actress who is generating Oscar buzz for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in “La Vie […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 4, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard

from Savoir Magazine (US) / by Mikael Jehanno
Few movies this year have moved French people as much as La Vie en Rose, a film directed by Olivier Dahan, which sheds a new light on the tragic and tumultuous life of Edith Piaf, the unforgettable voice of France after World War II and throughout the ‘50s. […]

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• Posted by Maria on June 1, 2007 in categories: 2007

Why playing Piaf is risky for a rising French star

from The Sunday Times, Culture (UK) / by Ryan Gilbey
Marion Cotillard’s youthful exuberance made her seem an odd fit for the harrowing life story of Edith Piaf: not least to herself. But she succeeds brilliantly
Those familiar with the young French actress Marion Cotillard are likely to have dropped their croissants in surprise when it was […]

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• Posted by Maria on May 13, 2007 in categories: 2007

Marion Cotillard’s extraordinary portrayal of ‘Little Sparrow’ Edith Piaf

from Daily Mail (UK) / by Baz Bamigboye
Marion Cotillard is a risk-seeker, but not in the conventional sense. She doesn’t do drugs, and she doesn’t parachute out of planes.
“I find my pleasure by putting myself in danger - a danger that makes me feel alive - a danger that comes from acting,” she told me […]

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• Posted by Maria on April 6, 2007 in categories: 2007

 

 

 

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