Marion is included as one of W Magazine’s 33 Best Performances of 2013! I think this may be featured in their February issue, so we’ll be on the lookout for scans. The introductory article and caption about Marion can be read below, with the all-new photoshoot image in the Gallery. You can see the full Best Performances portfolio at WMagazine.com

Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone
“I have a crush on Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas. He was my type of guy, especially when I was a kid. I was totally in love with him. I wanted to go anywhere with Harry Dean Stanton: Texas, Paris, whatever, wherever.”

Best Performances 2013
This year’s 33 brightest stars, up close and unscripted.
By Lynn Hirschberg

In 2012, sex all but disappeared from the movies. Perhaps because it was an election year, perhaps because America has been absorbed by a longing for heroes, the films this year were largely devoid of physical passion. Even James Bond, notorious for his tantalizing, exotic affairs, was nearly chaste in Skyfall. The Bond girl in the latest chapter was his boss and maternal figure, M, who stands for England in all its historic glory. Similarly, the runaway hit of the holiday season was Lincoln, in which Daniel Day-Lewis brilliantly gives voice and humanity to the greatness of what government can do: pass a law that ends a war and frees the oppressed. And while the creation of the Amendment that abolished slavery in America represents a kind of sexy happy-ending history lesson, the couplings in the film are mostly legislative. Zero Dark Thirty is another, more contemporary, slice of American-history-in-action, and though the war still rages, it also ends with a victory—the death of Osama bin Laden. The movie follows a CIA analyst named Maya, portrayed with intensity and steel by Jessica Chastain, who believes she has found the arch-terrorist’s lair and will not rest until he is killed. Although Maya works with a team of men and some women, she seems to exist as an island. It’s entirely possible that her goals could be pursued even with human interaction, but that might compromise her hero status in the viewer’s eyes.

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You may have noticed that during the past few weeks I’ve kept adding articles to the press archive and also updated the gallery – especially if you’ve been following us on Twitter or Tumblr. Many thanks to Amelia and Melfan for their much-appreciated contributions to this update!!! Here’s an overview:

Press:
• Character in Rust and Bone “got right into my blood,” Marion Cotillard says, The Gazette (Canada), December 13
• ‘Rust and Bone’ Globe Nominee Marion Cotillard: ‘I Questioned Existence’, Hollywood, December 13
• Marion Cotillard cried on Rust and Bone set, Canada.com, December 14
• ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Star Marion Cotillard on Gun Violence: ‘It’s a Vicious Circle’, The Hollywood Reporter, December 15
• Marion Cotillard’s new role cuts to the ‘Bone’, Star Tribune, December 15
• Interview: Marion Cotillard of ‘Rust and Bone’, Red Eye Chicago, December 17
• Marion Cotillard gets ‘Rust and Bone’ amputee character with one image, The Canadian Express, December 19
• ‘Rust and Bone’ masterfully depicts tragedy, love, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20
• Interview: Marion Cotillard, Now (Canada), December 20
• ‘Rust and Bone’s’ Marion Cotillard dives head-first into roles, Los Angeles Times – Envelope, December 20
• The Argument: Marion Cotillard, Hollywood’s favourite French actress, gets unleashed in Rust and Bone, Toronto Life, December 20
• ‘Unusual love story’ moved Cotillard, Daily News, December 21
• There’s no rust on Cotillard, Toronto Sun, December 21
• ‘Rust and Bone’ brings Marion Cotillard face to face with orcas, The Seattle Times, January 6

Gallery:
009 Scans From 2012 > Various Clippings
001 Scans From 2012 > L’Express Styles (France) – November 7
005 Scans From 2012 > Cineplex (Canada) – December
003 Scans From 2012 > Newsweek (US) – December 10, scanned by Amelia
004 Scans From 2012 > Los Angeles Times – The Envelope (US) – December 20, scanned by Amelia
002 Scans From 2013 > Various Clippings
001 Sessions From 2012 > ‘Rust And Bone’ Promo
004 Sessions From 2012 > 7000 Fashion Magazine & L’Express Styles
001 Sessions From 2012 > Grazia
003 Sessions From 2012 > Hollywood Film Awards – Session 001
003 Sessions From 2012 > Los Angeles Times
002 Sessions From 2012 > Los Angeles Times – Envelope
005 Sessions From 2011 > L’Express Styles
005 Sessions From 2010 > L’Express Styles
001 Sessions From 2010 > New York Times Magazine
097 Sessions from 2008
161 Sessions from 2007

Also as you can see I re-added the 2007 & 2008 portrait sessions. Most of these were at one point far back in time already on this site but they’re finally back with some additions I found throughout the years. Enjoy! I’ll be completing the – now only a few – missing years soon.

With the release of ‘Rust and Bone‘ (De rouille et d’os) in the US came many new articles. They are all really well worth a read and each offers something new. There are also some new portraits that came with the articles and I added digital scans of some. Enjoy!

• Wrestling a New Role Into Its Full Rebirth, New York Times, November 16
• “Rust and Bone’s” Marion Cotillard on Blockbusters vs. Independents and the Role of Marine Parks, NBC, November 19
• The Cinema Of My Country: Marion Cotillard on Rust and Bone, Crave Online, November 19
• OSCARS Q&A: Marion Cotillard, Deadline, November 21
• Marion Cotillard: motherhood can be ‘tiring’, USA Today, November 26
• Marion Cotillard digs deep in ‘Rust and Bone’, USA Today, November 26
• Interview with Marion Cotillard backstage at IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, Examiner, November 27
• Lucky, not brave, Variety, November 29
• Marion Cotillard’s Stellar Turn in ‘Rust and Bone’, Newsweek Magazine, December 3
• Honor Roll 2012: Marion Cotillard Dances With the Fishes in ‘Rust and Bone’ and Explains How a Sex Scene Can Make You Happy for a Character, IndieWire, December 3
• Is Marion Cotillard a Shoe-In for ‘Rust and Bone’?, Popmatters, December 3
• Oscar-Worthy: An Exclusive Interview with Marion Cotillard, ComingSoon.net, December 4
• Marion Cotillard in ‘Rust and Bone’, Variety, December 4
• Interview: Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Awards Daily, December 5

Gallery:
001 Scans from 2012 > New York Times (US) – November 16
002 Scans from 2012 > USA Today (USA) – November 27
002 Sessions from 2012 > New York Times
002 Sessions from 2012 > USA Today

Wow! Marion Cotillard is on the cover of the December issue of W Magazine! Check out the portraits, article & video. I’ll be adding scans later this month.

Press:
• Red Hot: Marion Cotillard

Gallery:
001 Scans from 2012 > W Magazine (US) – December
007 Sessions from 2012 > W Magazine
189 Behind the Scenes > 2012 – W Magazine

Video:
001 Magazines, Photoshoots > Lynn Hirschberg

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.

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

Video:
002 Other Public Appearances > Printemps Christmas Illuminations

Marion Cotillard arrived in Telluride, Colorado (US) yesterday after reportedly taking four flights to get from Paris to Telluride (via Los Angeles). Despite being exhausted from the travel she charmed everyone. She attended an intimate filmmakers Dinner hosted by Sony Picture Classics (US distributor for ‘Rust & Bone‘) and was awarded the Silver Medallion for her performance.

TELLURIDE: Just left intimate SPC dinner w/ Marion Cotillard, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Dennis Quaid. Off to outdoor screening of Bernal’s NO.
PS: Marion Cotillard, even on no sleep and after taking five flights to get from Paris to Telluride, is still drop dead gorgeous. My God.
• Scott Feinberg Tweet 1, Tweet 2

At SPC’s annual filmmakers dinner Saturday night, Rust & Bone star Marion Cotillard attended. Besides Best Actress Oscar talk, she received a special festival tribute today which she told me was quite an honor.
• Deadline.com

At one table, journalists switched seats throughout the dinner in order to converse with Bernal and Cotillard, who were seated at opposite ends. Upon arriving, the two European stars hugged and proudly showed each other iPhone pics of their young children. Both had to leave a little early — Cotillard to receive her career tribute, which was moderated by THR film critic Todd McCarthy, and Bernal, with Larrain, to introduce the second screening of No, which was held at a nearby outdoor venue. … Cotillard, meanwhile, talked about how difficult she has found it to learn other languages — especially Italian — for films that she has made outside of France.
• The Hollywood Reporter

This morning, Marion Cotillard atttended the tribute to herself and the screening of ‘Rust & Bone‘. A few pictures via Twitter:

Betsyrowbottom, Bunee Tomlinson, Steve Persall 1 & 2, Jim Berkowitz

And 2 articles:
• Telluride 2012: Marion Cotillard Comes to Town for Career Tribute and ‘Rust and Bone’ Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter, September 2
• ‘Dark Knight Rises’ and ‘Rust & Bone’ star Marion Cotillard honored in Telluride, HitFix, September 1

Gallery:
002 Events in 2012 > 2012 Telluride Film Festival – Sony Pictures Classics Dinner credit: Hollywood Elsewhere
012 Events in 2012 > 2012 Telluride Film Festival – Silver Medallion Award
012 Events in 2012 > 2012 Telluride Film Festival – Day 3

I added 4 new stills from ‘De rouille et d’os‘ (Rust & Bone) and a wonderful article from Dior Mag. In my opinion they found the right words to describe Marion & the movie.

• Dior on the town: Marion Cotillard, Dior Mag, May 28

Here, there is no artifice, no makeup. Bare face, bare soul. No pathos, no screaming, no tears – or few. But there’s such a jostle of complex and contradictory feelings and emotions that come across subtly, profoundly, in a vacant stare, an inflection, a half-smile, in the faintest of gestures. Like a hurricane that might sweep away everything in its path without making the slightest sound. … Here, at age 36, is an actress at the height of her art. And such is her curiosity about the cinema, about human beings and the feelings that drive them, we can be certain that she still has surprises in store, that she hasn’t yet revealed all her secrets.

Once again, he [Jacques Audiard] lays emotions bare and exposes raw sentiment with the cool efficiency of a surgeon and the mysterious profundity of a poet. This film is all the more captivating because it touches, almost without seeming to, the very essence of life.

Gallery:
004 De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone) – 2012 > Stills

‘Little White Lies‘ (Les petits mouchoirs) has been playing in cinemas across the UK and certain parts of Canada since mid-April. Over the past weeks as well as today I’ve added more interviews and promotion material. Here’s an overview:

• Marion Cotillard, Little White Lies, April 11 (full interview)
• Marion Cotillard Interview, AskMen.us, April 9
• Marion Cotillard, The Guardian, April 7
• Why we love Marion Cotillard, British GQ, April
• An Interview with Marion Cotillard, ‘Little White Lies‘ Press Pack
• Little White Lies: Interview with Guillaume, EFE, April 8
• Little White Lies: Director’s Statement & Interviews, ‘Little White Lies‘ Press Pack
• Little White Lies: an honest tale of friendship, joy and heartbreak, The Guardian, March 25

Gallery Links:
001 Les petits mouchoirs (Little White Lies) – 2010 > Artwork
004 The Independent on Sunday – The New Review (UK) – April 3
001 GQ (UK) – April
001 Various Clippings, scanned by Natalie

Video Link:
004 Tag: Little White Lies English & Spanish Trailer, Subtitled Clip & Featurette

There is currently an overload of pictures etc from Marion’s appearances at the Toronto Film Festival. Stay tuned for more updates! In the meantime, Marion Cotillard was featured in the Evening Standard Magazine on the weekend with the stunning photoshoot realized for Chopard’s 150th anniversary in which she’s wearing pieces from their Animal World collection, developed in association with the WWF.

Anything we can do in favour of the defence of life and the environment is always precious.

For the most part the article is using quotes from the recent feature in the ‘Interview‘ magazine but it still makes for an interesting read. Thank you Natalie for the scans!

Note: In the final print Marion Cotillard wasn’t featured on the cover of ES Magazine, though there was a preview of a version with Marion.

• Hollywood’s love affair with Marion Cotillard

005 Scans from 2010 > Evening Standard Magazine (UK) – September 10

As previously announced Marion Cotillard is gracing the cover of the July issue of US Vogue. The magazine hits newsstands June 22. Already now, we can read part of the article and adore the pictures of the fabulous editorial shot by Mario Testino in the Provence, France, and watch a behind the scenes video on the Vogue.com Website. I will add my own scans as soon as I have the magazine.

• Portrait of the Artist, Vogue (US), July 2010

001 Magazine Scans > Scans from 2010 > Vogue (US) – July
007 Portraits > Sessions from 2010 > Vogue
086 Portraits > Behind the Scenes > 2010 – Vogue