As promised, I added scans of the new feature about Marion Cotillard and Maud Fontenoy in the latest issue of Paris Match. Unfortunately, the version of the cover with the 2 of them is only for the digital issue. The actual printed magazine has Prince William & Kate on the cover. So the quality of the cover in the gallery is not the best.

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

A few months ago, on October 8 – on a Friday after having taped the Vivement Dimanche show and skipped a local ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ premiere due to being too sick to attend earlier the same week – Marion Cotillard accompanied Maud Fontenoy to the Collège Valmy in Paris for the launch of the project ‘Saving Marine Biodiversity’. Also present were French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo and French Paris commissioner of education, Patrick Gerard. The Maud Fontenoy Foundation is supplying the educational kit to 7 031 schools in France. Marion Cotillard said that when she was the same age as the students there was no talk of biodiversity at school. Back then, people didn’t realize yet that the planet is degrading. So she encouraged the students to lern about the issue so that their generation can make a difference. Smilingly, she noted that seeing them learn about biodiversity makes her want to go back to school. Watch a video on Bioaddict.fr.

Gallery:
005 Scans from 2010 > Paris Match (France) – December 16-22
116 Events in 2010 > ‘Saving Marine Biodiversity’ Project Launch
086 Award Shows & Premieres etc > ‘Saving Marine Biodiversity’ Project Launch

Video:
001 Other Public Appearances > 2010 ‘Saving Marine Biodiversity’ Project Launch

LadyDior.com was updated with the fourth and last chapter of the Lady Dior story at midnight. There’s the high quality version of the full-length movie as well as a Making Of! Be sure to visit the site!

Gallery:
137 London – Lady Grey > Lady Grey – Screencaptures
060 London – Lady Grey > Lady Grey – Making Of
002 London – Lady Grey > Screenshots Website
[edit] Replaced some of the Behind the Scenes pictures with better versions thanks to Sairentu

Video:
001 Movie & TV Clips > Lady Grey London
001 DVD Extras & Featurettes > Lady Grey London – Making Of

Taking a break from catching up on the latest news about Marion Cotillard I bring you today high quality screencaps as well as clips with English subtitles from the 2004 movie ‘A Very Long Engagement‘ (Un long dimanche de fiançailles). Blu-ray quality captures show us all the details of Marion’s costumes, make-up and tears in her emotional final scene. Marion played the supporting part of the Corsican prostitute Tina Lombardi and deservedly won a César for her performance.

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246 Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) – 2004 > Blu-ray Screencaptures
008 Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) – 2004 > Blu-ray Screencaptures > Trailers

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007 Tag > A Very Long Engagement (2 Trailers & 5 Clips)

A huge thank you to Melfan for sending in the missing parts 1 & 4 of Marion Cotillard’s appearance on the Vivement Dimanche show back in October. Please visit her site for Marion’s former co-star and friend Mélanie Doutey who has just moved to the same agent as Marion. Enjoy!

Gallery: 353 Talk Shows > Vivement Dimanche – 2010
Video: 002 Talk Shows > Vivement Dimanche

Last month, on October 10, 2010, the French Sunday TV Show Vivement Dimanche had Guillaume Canet as guest of honour. He got to invite people to join him and of course Marion Cotillard was one of those he invited. First she joined Yodelice as a regular band member to play the drums for the song ‘More than meets the eye’. Later she performed the duet ‘Five Thousand Nights’ together with Maxim Nucci before the two joined Guillaume on the couch to be interviewed. Marion Cotillard talked of her and her family’s love of music, how she chose the name of her character in the Yodelice universe after her maternal grandmother Simone. They also talked about her other grandmother and Marion’s character in Les petits mouchoirs. Later, these 3 were joined by almost the complete cast of Les petits mouchoirs.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find an actual recording of the first song as well as of the last part of the show. If you have one could you please let us use it for the site? Thank you.

Gallery: 224 Talk Shows > Vivement Dimanche – 2010 (Stills & Screencaps)
Video: 002 Talk Shows > Vivement Dimanche

I’m very sorry for the delay but I finally have an update about Les enfants de la télé for you. Marion Cotillard & Guillaume Canet together with the majority of the ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ cast appeared on the French TV show where they show old, rare and funny clips of the guests on September 25, 2010. A HUGE thank you to Melfan for her tremendous help with this – without her this post wouldn’t have been possible!

They showed the following Marion-related clips: 2008 Award montage, 16 year old Marion in a campaign against drinking (Tu t’es vu quand t’as bu), 7 and 8 year old Marion in TV movies by Claude Cailloux (La monde des tout petits & Lucie), Dance routine ‘Take it All’ in Nine, Forehead Tittaes and 18 year old Marion in TV series Extrême Limite.

Gallery:
818 TV Shows > Enfants de la Télé – 2010

Video:
005 TV Shows > Les Enfants de la télé
001 Other > Tu t’es vu quand t’as bu (1991)
002 Movie & TV Clips > La monde des tout petits (1982) & Lucie (1983)

On Friday evening a new episode of Mon Taratata à moi aired on France 2. That’s the version of the show where artists choose a performance by someone else from the Taratata archives for their personal Taratata show – while sitting in a photo booth. This time Marion Cotillard chose David Bowie because he’s a real genius and there’s really no need to say more about him.

Gallery: 039 TV Shows > Mon Taratata à moi – 2010
Video: 001 Taratata > Mon Taratata à moi #2

France 4 & 2 finally aired the Taratata episode featuring Marion Cotillard. She appeared as Simone along with Yodelice for the song ‘More than meets the eye’ and then performed the David Bowie song ‘Velvet Goldmine’ as a duo with Yodelice. And then she was also interviewed. Rewatch the entire episode on MyTaratata.com.

She talked about her love of music and how she’s always had the dream to make music but it wasn’t until Yodelice aka Maxim Nucci pushed her that she’s living the dream. Yodelice was quick to praise her, saying that she’s very gifted and quick in learning how to play instruments by herself. She learned how to play the piano at home when she was little and how to play the cello for a film (‘Toi et moi‘) and now the guitar and bass guitar. When told not to minimalize her talents she explained that it was out of respect for musicians that she’s careful not to over emphasize her musical talents. When asked whether she dreamed of becoming a singer (musicienne) or an actress (comédienne) when she was a little girl she said she dreamed of being in musicals (comédies musicales). This lead to the music video Marion was in when she was 14 years old. She loved the song ‘Petite Fille’ a lot at the time and still loves the band Les Wampas. They joked that they could have a re-union on the show. Marion was also asked whether it’s imaginable that there’d be a solo album in the future and she said yes. The host joked that this probably means it’s already in preparation.

Here are links to things that were mentioned in the interview: Petite Fille (pictures, video), Milord duet with Jenifer (pictures, video) and The Eyes of Mars (pictures, video).

Gallery: 527 TV Shows > Taratata – 2010
Video: 003 TV Shows > Taratata

I recorded bits of this night’s Mon Taratata à moi from my internet TV player. The quality is not the best but you can now enjoy Marion Cotillard in a photo booth choosing a performance by Lily Allen from the Taratata archives for her personal Taratata show. Why Lily? Because Marion loves England and Rock – and that’s what Lily stands for.

There was about 1.5 second at the end of the show I didn’t manage to record where Marion was waving goodbye. Now, I really can’t wait for next week when she’ll actually be performing on the real Taratata show!

Gallery: 036 TV Shows > Mon Taratata à moi – 2010
Video: 001 TV Shows > Mon Taratata à moi

Yodélice’s new music video to the first song Breathe In on the new album is out! Watch the music video on UniversalMusic.fr. It features footage from the studio as well as live concerts – and really captures the atmosphere of seeing the band peform live! I’m not sure whether this is the final version or only a teaser – but for my taste it’s far too short!

Gallery: 009 Yodelice > Music Video – Breathe In (October 2010)
Video: 001 Music Videos > Breathe In