Trying to catch up on all the many Marion Cotillard magazine features from recent months. To start, a batch of German scans.

Find a German interview with Marion Cotillard on Glamour.de. As far as I’ve been able to find out it hasn’t been featured in a print issue.

001 Glamour (Germany) – August Thanks Nathalie for the scan!
003 Gruen (Switzerland) – August 10 Schweizer Illustrierte supplement
007 Style (Switzerland) – September Schweizer Illustrierte supplement

Kindly do not redistribute these scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were obtained/donated exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

Marion Cotillard narrated the forthcoming ‘Voyage sous les mers 3d‘ by the brothers Jean-Jacques & François Mantello. The film opens in French theatres next week, August 26. According to the movie’s official site as of today there will be 4 advanced screenings with the presence of the directors. Not sure, if that’ll include Marion on at least one of the screenings? Maybe she’s too busy shooting ‘Inception‘ (although I think they were only shooting in Paris for 3 days) or she went back to the set of ‘Les Petits Mouchoirs‘ again already.

Anyway, I added the French interview with Marion from the production notes, the video interview from MenStyle.fr, the trailer, the poster as well as a picture of Marion behind the microphone to the media sections.

Maybe someone could provide English translations soon? That’d be awesome. In the meantime a short summary. We learn that Marion was intrigued by the project as soon as she heard about it. She was approached while filming ‘Le dernier vol‘ in the Sahara. She’s done some diving herself and was amazed by the wonders of the ocean. According to her watching ‘Voyage sous les mers 3d‘ will feel like a real dive.

Press Archive:
• La voix du film : Entretien avec Marion Cotillard

Gallery:
001 Voyage sous les mers 3d (OceanWorld 3d) – On Set
001 Voyage sous les mers 3d (OceanWorld 3d) – Artwork
026 Online Interviews > MenStyle.fr – 2009

Video:
002 Voyage sous les mers 3D (Trailer & interview)

As previously announced Marion Cotillard attended a screening of ‘Public Enemies‘ in Lyon on July 3, 2009. Bakasphere.com kindly gave me permission to post his pictures from the event. [edit:] Actually, these (and 2 new) pictures were taken at the Hôtel de Ville, where Marion participated in the radio show ‘La tête dans les étoiles‘ for RTL just before the actual screening.[/edit]. ToxicGirls.org added a video of the 5-min interview with Marion, which took place before the screening, to DailyMotion. Find screencaptures & the clip in the media sections.

Note that some guy went up to the stage to ask for an autograph. Marion graciously signed for him but the interviewer made clear that this was to be an exception and that everyone else please remain seated. LOL

Gallery link:
004 ‘Public Enemies’ Premiere – Lyon La tête dans les étoiles (RTL) – Lyon
046 ‘Public Enemies’ Premiere – Lyon – 2009

Video link:
001 Other Public Appearances – 2009 Public Enemies Lyon Premiere

Presumably before or after the “La Fête du Cinema” Cocktail Lunch Marion also recorded an interview with French TV channel TF1. It aired during the evening news of July 1. I added captures and a clip. The audio is unfortunately out of sync with the video towards the end, but I couldn’t do a better job. Sorry.

Gallery: 090 News Segments > JT20H (TF1) – 01/07/2009
Video: 001 News Segments > JT20H – TF1 – 2009/07/01

This second batch of new interviews consists of French interviews and articles. If anyone has time to translate at least one or two of them that’d be great! This is the last update for a while as I’m leaving town again tomorrow and won’t be with internet access until at least next week.

• Sa Vie en Rose, Le Petit Bulletin, July 7
• Confidences d’une môme qui devient grande, Gala, July 3
• Marion Cotillard, une Môme en plein Sahara, Le Figaro Magazine, July 4
• Marion Cotillard, de retour d’Amérique dans la peau d’une compagne de gangster, La Voix du Nord, July 3
• “Johnny Depp est un vrai gentleman”, Metro, July 2
• Marion Cotillard : l’amour, l’ego et Hollywood, Madame Figaro, June 27

The Sahara article is actually about Figaro Magazine‘s visit to the Le dernier vol set. We learn that the full name of Marion’s character is Marie Vallières de Beaumont.

Marion had an immediate visceral connection with Marie Vallières de Beaumont, this passionate woman who fights to rescue the man she loves to the point of exhaustion and who in the abandonment of the desert discovers a new meaning of life.

Marion Cotillard shares this perfectionism, she’s always extremely focused even for a short scene. The young Oscar winner has lost none of her naturality and simplicity though. Once we see her knitting a scarf for her niece. We’re amused to see her candidly confide her “unhealthy sentimentality” towards animals, including insects. Then the Marion we know is back, one evening she’s singing and dancing, together with a nomadic Berber family who arrived to work as extras on the film. “Like my character, I’ve found a lot more in the desert than I set out for: especially these smiles of the children!”

Thanks to Paolo we have the full clip & lovely screencaptures of the long Marion Cotillard interview Canal+ aired this past Sunday as part of their Rencontres de Cinéma series. Enjoy!

If someone has time to provide a translated transcript you’re most welcome to do so as I have no time at all! Thank you!

Gallery: 266 Rencontre Marion Cotillard (Canal+) – 05/07/2009
Video: 001 Rencontre Marion Cotillard

I added a bunch of new interviews & articles to the press archive:

• Marion Cotillard on Public Enemies, CanMag, July 6
• Comparisons with Angelina a thorn as Marion blooms, Independent.ie, July 5
• Cotillard’s Vie En Roles, California Chronicle, July 4
• Film interview with Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies, The London Paper, July 3
• Marion Cotillard: Public Enemies press conference report, Den of Geek!, July 2
• Cotillard: Every day is magical, AFP, July 2
• Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies Interview, MoviesOnline, July 2
• We Say Oui Oui to Marion Cotillard!, The New York Observer, July 2
• Accent on experience, as Cotillard prepared to play Dillinger’s girl, Chicago Tribune, June 28

Then Lorna sent in some exclusive scans of a UK publication – huge thank you! – and I added also 2 pictures of a French magazine sent in by Paolo:

005 Herald Magazine (UK) – July 4
002 Femina (France) – July 5

Finally! ‘Public Enemies‘ can be seen in US theatres as of today! Be sure to head out and watch Marion’s first movie since ‘La Vie en Rose‘ (2007). The movie will open in the UK July 3, in France July 8, in Australia July 30, and in Germany August 6 (see more dates).

Check out the many features on the movie’s official site! And read some new interviews:

• Stormy role’s French twist, Journal Sentinel, June 27
• Marion Cotillard is ready for her close-ups, Twincities.com, June 30

Next, Marion Cotillard’s scheduled to promote ‘Public Enemies‘ in her home country France. First, she’ll attend the movie’s premiere in Paris tomororrow.

On Friday she’s the star guest of Radio RTL. In the morning (9.00-9.30 am) she’ll be interviewed during a programm called Laissez-vous tenter and in the afternoon she’ll participate in the programme La tête dans les étoiles together with Laurent Boyer. And in the evening there will be a screening of the movie in Lyon.

As previously announced, there’ll be a TV interview titled Marion Cotillard, la rencontre (20 minutes) airing on Canal+, Sunday 11.55 am.

I’m in and out of town this and next week but I’ll try to update the site as much as possible.

I have been working behind the scenes these past few days getting new material prepared and ready to upload to the site – so stay tuned!

Until then why don’t you read the interviews I added to the press archive:

• Tales from the red carpet, Chicago Now, June 18
• Accent was welcome task for Marion Cotillard, The Associated Press, June 23
• Marion Cotillard On The Complex Secrets Of ‘Inception’, MTV Blog, June 24
• Just a Minute With: French actress Marion Cotillard, Reuters, June 25

Marion Cotillard graced the cover of Daily Telegraph Saturday insert Telegraph Magazine on June 20. Thanks to Lorna I’ve added the scans to the gallery. Please also take time to read the in-depth portrait/interview either on the scans or in our press archive, it’s really well worth your time!

• Dark Star, Telegraph Magazine, June 20

She’s a great and real person who doesn’t fall into the movie stardom cliché. She is an artist first and foremost, and I’ve never seen anyone work so hard in my life. When you went into the rehearsal room, there she would be, working and working. She was just living the role. Daniel Day-Lewis was absolutely blown away by her, as I was, as anybody was.
- Rob Marshall, director of Nine

Kindly do not redistribute these scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were obtained/donated exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

005 Scans from 2009 > Telegraph Magazine (UK) – June 20