After doing some press interviews earlier in the day, Marion Cotillard attended first the ‘Rust and Bone‘ dinner hosted by Moet & Chandon at Michael’s on Simcoe before heading to the actual premiere of the movie held at The Elgin yesterday. More about the dinner over at Toronto Star. And there’s a new poster for the movie – to be used for promotion in the UK.

[edit:] It seems that right now Marion Cotillard is on stage after today’s screening for a Q&A together with Jacques Audiard & Matthias Schoenaerts. And Movieline has posted a spot-on review, they found words to express what I was feeling after seeing it.

Some articles have already surfaced:
• La douce Cotillard chez le dur Audiard, Voir.ca, Septeber 6 (read with Google Translator)
• Q & A with Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone, Toronto Star, September 7
• TIFF interview: Marion Cotillard, NOW Magazine, September 7
• Alone with Marion Cotillard, orca-trainer, The Globe and Mail, September 7
• Toronto Film Festival: ‘Rust And Bone’ Doesn’t Disappoint, CBS, September 7

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015 Toronto International Film Festival – ‘Rust and Bone’ Dinner
054 Toronto International Film Festival – ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere
001 Movies > De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone) – 2012 > Artwork

Marion Cotillard is on the cover of the Fall issue of TIME Style & Design looking strikingly elegant. Order it here. There’s also a really interesting story behind the photo shoot:

To prepare for his cover sitting with Marion Cotillard for TIME Style&Design’s fall issue, photographer Peter Hapak hit the archives, collecting pictures of Paris and Parisian fashion during the 1930s, including the work of famed French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. Studying images of women in restaurants, chatting with friends or simply roaming the streets of the city, Hapak easily understood why Paris has long been considered a fashion capital of the world. “All of the women looked like they had walked out of a fashion magazine,” he says. “Fashion is such a big part of the culture there, and you can even feel that history when walking through the city today.”

On set in Paris this August, Hapak tried to evoke this era, capturing Cotillard in designs by French fashion houses Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, along with other designers like Andrew Gn and Dries Van Noten. “She’s the representation of the French woman for me—elegant, but not too stylized,” says Hapak of Cotillard, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her portrayal of French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. “With the cover look, it felt like she was pulling a dress out of her own closet. It went so well with her style, and she felt really confident in it, that you would have never known she was dressing up for a shoot.”

And here’s the interview:
• Marion Cotillard: La Vie en Rose

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001 Portraits > Sessions from 2012 > TIME Style & Design

After launching their online magazine earlier this year, Dior are now launching a print magazine – and Marion Cotillard is on the cover of its first issue. WWD reports it but since I can’t access it here a few quotes courtesy of Fashion Copious:

- Available September 10th.
- The 110 page debut issue was designed by Fabien Baron.
- Marion Cotillard is “wearing the house’s original Bar jacket and flaring skirt from 1947″

Dior chief executive officer Sidney Toledano said such communication efforts nourish the brand, feed its narrative and help articulate “the values of Dior, which are different from our competitors.…It’s important today to differentiate ourselves.”

“It’s another way to communicate luxury,” said Toledano, flipping through the heavy, velvety pages and stressing, “This is not a catalogue. It’s fresh and modern. It’s how we see ourselves; our own maison. I think it translates perfectly the mood of the company right now.”

Vogue Germany reports that it will be published twice a year (September and March) in 9 different languages (among them English, French, Chinese and German).

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001 Magazine Scans > Scans from 2012 > Dior Magazine (France) – No.1

We’re being hit with loads of news. The 56th BFI London Film Festival (October 10-21) unveiled their line-up earlier today – and guess what, ‘Rust & Bone‘ (De rouille et d’os) is on it. Not only that, it is also competing in the category Official Competition. There are 12 films in each of the 3 competitive categories. There are 2 screenings:

Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:30 PM

The festival’s comment to the plot synopsis of the “unpitchable” film is:

That such potentially lurid material is explored with subtlety and emotional complexity is tribute not only to Audiard, but to his extraordinary leads. Marion Cotillard is mesmerising in arguably her most challenging role yet, while up-and-comer Schoenaerts impresses mightily as an apparent lunk suddenly forced to look for his hidden resources. Rust and Bone is as punchy and abrasive as its title suggests – but intensely moving and surprisingly poetic too.

Additionally, Variety reports that Marion herself will be participating in a Screen Talk during the festival.

The first episode of the new Lady Dior Documentary is online! See Marion Cotillard overseeing the designing, cutting, fitting and sewing for dresses to be worn by her at Dior’s haute couture workshops. Enjoy!

Visit LadyDior.com to see 3 bonus videos showing work being done close-up & the view from the workshop.

Check back later today for screencaptures.

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001 Dior > Lady Dior: A Web Documentary > Stills
070 Dior > Lady Dior: A Web Documentary > Episode 1: Fantasia

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001 Documentaries > Lady Dior

Savoir Flair is a Middle East Online Fashion Magazine and they have a brand-new interview with Marion Cotillard about ‘Rust & Bone‘.

• Q&A With… Marion Cotillard

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005 Scans from 2012 > Savoir Flair (Middle East) – September

After nearly 2 years (22 months) I was finally starting to get bored with the previous layout – however gorgeous it was. So Mel from Vintage Dreams designed the new look for the main site, the gallery & the video archive with pictures from the recent Grazia feature. Also a big thank you to Laura for her help with the video templates. I hope there aren’t any bugs – otherwise let me know.

I also started working on updating the information pages – while I’m by no means done yet, you can check out the progress over the coming weeks. In the meantime, how do you like the new look?

Telluride Film Festival added a brief video from the tribute to Marion Cotillard last Saturday, hosted by The Hollywood Reporter’s film critic Todd McCarthy.

Gallery: 042 Award Shows & Premieres etc > Telluride Film Festival – Tribute – 2012
Video: 001 Award Ceremonies > Telluride Film Festival

As previously posted Marion Cotillard will perform as Jeanne d’Arc in Arthur Honegger’s oratorio Jeanne au bûcher with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona (OBC) on November 17 and 18. The event is now listed on their official website and you can buy tickets ranging from €39 to €73. There will be two performances:

Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 7.00 pm
Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 11.00 am

The Saturday performance will live stream on medici.tv. According to their website it’s available worldwide and live concerts are available free of charge, and only require to be registered / logged in.

If you miss that you can listen to the Sunday performance live on Catalunya Música (in Spain) or later to the recording on Tuesdays at 9pm on the radio’s website. The recording will also air on RNE’s Ràdio Clàssica on Sunday’s after 8pm.

There’s an awesome new UK trailer for ‘Rust and Bone‘ (De rouille et d’os). In my opinion it captures perfectly the essence of the movie and gives you a taste of how visceral & powerful it really is.

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031 De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone) – 2012 > Screencaptures > Trailers

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001 Trailers > Rust & Bone

And Dior released a teaser for the forthcoming Lady Dior Documentary – which we now know will have 7 (!) episodes. Can’t wait for the first one to be online on Wednesday. New episodes will be published every two weeks through December (source).

Our Lady Mystery is none other than the incomparable Marion Cotillard. In seven exclusive reports, she gives us a sneak peek into the whirlwind that is her artist’s life, from photo shoots to fittings.Our Lady in Dior will await you here, in two days’ time, for the first episode in the series.