Le Journal du Dimanche asked Woody Allen yesterday about who of the ladies from ‘Midnight in Paris‘ are to be expected at the Cannes Film Festival. Rachel McAdams is coming but it he doesn’t know about Carla Bruni. He hopes so but all depends on her schedule and he’ll only know a few days before the festival. But what about Marion Cotillard?

“Marion is expecting a happy event which is very imminent – it’s a matter of weeks, days maybe… So I don’t know. I’d love her to be there because in Cannes people have always extended an exceptional welcome to my work. “

• Source: leJDD.fr

Another brilliant interview was published in the UK today. This time in The Independent. While none of the topics mentioned are actually new the answers about her work in both French and American movies, her recent career developments as well as about dealing with the media do contain additional insight so be sure to read.

• Marion Cotillard: ‘I’m really normal! Well, not that normal. I’m an actress’, The Independent, April 3

I just wanna do movies. I don’t have a plan. I’m so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn’t have dared to think I would work with one day. And now I know that everything is possible. So, it’s very exciting. But I don’t have in my mind whether I do an American movie or a French movie. It’s just [that] the stories come and… if I recognised myself in the story, I wanna be part of it. That’s how it happens.

Talking of stories coming her way, Baz Bamigboye reports in The Daily Mail that Marion Cotillard is on on a wish list of actresses to play Fantine in the movie adaptation of the musical ‘Les Misérables‘ which in turn in based on Victor Hugo’s book. Tom Hooper – fresh off Oscar-winning The King’s Speech‘ – is in negotiations to sign as director. Once the crucial part of lead character Valjean’s been cast filming could start next year, apparently.

Finally the trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming movie ‘Midnight in Paris‘ has arrived! Watch to see some glimpses of Marion Cotillard walking around the streets of Paris with Owen Wilson – after midnight, when the city is magic.

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In just little over two weeks, on April 15, ‘Little White Lies‘ (Les petits mouchoirs) will open in the UK. A number of publications have published new interviews with Marion Cotillard – conducted in Paris last December – to promote the movie. By the way, how interesting that one of the publications is actually really called ‘Little White Lies’! I added scans and transcripts – enjoy!

• Style Statement, Vogue India, March (Lady Dior Promo)
• Runaway Train, Little White Lies, March/April
• “I admired Greta Garbo, but I wanted to be Peter Sellers”, Empire, April
• Marion Cotillard, Dazed & Confused, April
• French Fancy, Total Film, May

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001 Scans from 2011 > Dazed & Confused (UK) – April
007 Scans from 2011 > Total Film (UK) – May

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

The official website for ‘Midnight in Paris‘ is online http://www.sonyclassics.com/midnightinparis/! There isn’t yet any content but it does say that it’ll be released in the US (first only in New York & Los Angeles) on May 20, 2011 – which is actually only little over a week after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and the French release date.

I added the screencaptures of the Making Of featurette on the ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ (Little White Lies) Blu-ray. While some of the footage in it is the same as in the Behind the Scenes videos published on Facebook when the movie was in theatres in France there’s still plenty of new pictures of Marion Cotillard so enjoy.

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Part of the extras on the ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ DVD & Blu-ray are 5 holiday videos – meant to be of the previous holidays the movie characters enjoyed together. In the actual movie the friends watch little snippets from these in one scene.

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First of all I would like to thank my good friend Nadine for posting all the latest news about Marion Cotillard while I was away during the last few weeks!

Today I bring you high quality screencaptures of Marion as Marie in Guillaume Canet’s hit movie about friendship ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ (Little White Lies). I’ll add screencaptures of the bonus features soon. Enjoy! (Note: If you haven’t seen the movie yet the caps contain some spoilers)

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