‘ Outlander ‘ Season 5: Why Viewers Can’t Stop Thinking About That Scene With Marsali and ClaireJacqueline Sahagian January 12, 2015 6/6.242 6/6.242 Frazer Harrison / Getty Images The French actress Marion Cotillard is pleased with her success as a working-class woman fighting against d Possibly the most famous French actor in America, Cotillard is the only actor to win an Oscar for a French-speaking performance and a muse to some of the world’s greatest directors. Here’s a look at nine of the actress’s career’s most unforgettable films.
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The Immigrant
Critics have complained about the inability of Weinstein Co. to adequately advertise and promote for the period drama The Immigrant, which has amazing performances from both Cotillard and co-star Joaquin Phoenix but was more or less swept under the rug in 2014 because of poor marketing. The Refugee has Cotillard playing a Polish refugee who arrives with her sister at Ellis Island in 1921. The sister is arrested for having tuberculosis, and Cotillard’s character is scooped up by a Phoenix-played pimp and hustler who takes advantage of immigrant women and turns them into a nightclub dancer-prostitutes. Phoenix ends up falling in love with Cotillard who is increasingly dissatisfied with both himself and her own actions as the film progresses. For the job, Cotillard learned to speak accent-free Polish and English with a Polish accent. 6/6.244 Source:
3. Warner Bros. The Dark Knight Rises
Cotillard’s greatest role as far as mass success is concerned has probably been in the Dark Knight Rises of Christopher Nolan. The actress has consistently collaborated with Nolan and Cotillard has earned her highest U.S. audience from those collaborations. She plays Wayne Enterprises board member Miranda Tate in Nolan’s third Batman installment who helps Bruce Wayne get through his grief and continue his philanthropic efforts after the traumatic events that end the previous film. Source: Sony Pictures Classics
4. Rust and Bone
Showing courage in the face of colossal confusion Marion has built a character of dignity and candor that effortlessly melds into a world that without her we might not have known. Her performance in her review of Rust and Bone for Variety is as unpredictable and as unsentimental and raw as the film itself said fellow actress and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. Source: Sony Pictures Classics
5. Midnight in Paris Woody Allen was almost necessary to cast in his tribute to the City of Light the most famous French actress to cross over to America. The romantic fantasy shows Owen Wilson doing his best impression of Woody Allen as the screenwriter and novelist Gil who finds himself able to travel back in time to the glory days of the 1920s with his materialistic fiancée during a trip to Paris. Gil encounters the greatest artists and writers of the period including Gertrude Stein F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Cotillard plays a fictional character named Adriana a Picasso maid with whom Gil falls immediately in love. Although Gil romanticizes 1920’s Paris, Adriana romanticizes 1890’s Paris and claims she’d do anything to be able to go back in time and not be able to see the beautiful era she’s living in. The film has received some of the best reviews from Allen in the last few years. 6/6.247 Source: Warner Brothers
7. Nine
Rob Marshall’s follow-up to his musical Chicago hit film adaptation is generally regarded as a star-studded flop. The musical is based on a classic 8 1?2 film by Fellini and is about a filmmaker struggling with his personal and professional life. In the film which co-stars Daniel Day-Lewis Penelope Cruz Nicole Kidman Kate Hudson and Sophia Loren Cotillard had to sing and dance. Cotillard plays the main character’s wife Luisa Contini who is suffering from his adultery. Cotillard was seen in the movie performing with her largest supporting cast to date but it was deemed a commercial and critical disappointment. Even though seeing the actress do such a romantic musical of song and dance numbers is worth seeing to get a full understanding of her career because of how different it is from other films she’s made. Recently Cotillard spoke of her disappointment at the film’s reception to The Huffington Post saying: I love this film and this film is here forever now and I know that Rob Marshall loves this film too and is really proud of it. I don’t know if you really need to explain why that wasn’t working. · It was a bit painful that there was no audience there. Source 6/6.249 Universal Pictures
8. Public Enemies
This gangster film co-starring Johnny Depp was Cotillard’s first major Hollywood effort and sees her playing mobster girlfriend Billie Frechette, and bank robber John Dillinger. The movie follows Dillinger’s final years as a fugitive as well as his investigation by the FBI. Heavily researched Frechette’s life to prepare for the role of Cotillard and met with members of her family. In this film preparation, Cotillard again worked hard on language to speak in a French-Canadian-Menominee-Wisconsin-Chicago accent, and only spoke English during the three months of filming. 6/6.250 6/6.250 Source:
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The Immigrant
Critics have complained about the inability of Weinstein Co. to adequately advertise and promote for the period drama The Immigrant, which has amazing performances from both Cotillard and co-star Joaquin Phoenix but was more or less swept under the rug in 2014 because of poor marketing. The Refugee has Cotillard playing a Polish refugee who arrives with her sister at Ellis Island in 1921. The sister is arrested for having tuberculosis, and Cotillard’s character is scooped up by a Phoenix-played pimp and hustler who takes advantage of immigrant women and turns them into a nightclub dancer-prostitutes. Phoenix ends up falling in love with Cotillard who is increasingly dissatisfied with both himself and her own actions as the film progresses. For the job, Cotillard learned to speak accent-free Polish and English with a Polish accent. 6/6.244 Source:
3. Warner Bros. The Dark Knight Rises
Cotillard’s greatest role as far as mass success is concerned has probably been in the Dark Knight Rises of Christopher Nolan. The actress has consistently collaborated with Nolan and Cotillard has earned her highest U.S. audience from those collaborations. She plays Wayne Enterprises board member Miranda Tate in Nolan’s third Batman installment who helps Bruce Wayne get through his grief and continue his philanthropic efforts after the traumatic events that end the previous film. Source: Sony Pictures Classics
4. Rust and Bone
Showing courage in the face of colossal confusion Marion has built a character of dignity and candor that effortlessly melds into a world that without her we might not have known. Her performance in her review of Rust and Bone for Variety is as unpredictable and as unsentimental and raw as the film itself said fellow actress and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. Source: Sony Pictures Classics
5. Midnight in Paris Woody Allen was almost necessary to cast in his tribute to the City of Light the most famous French actress to cross over to America. The romantic fantasy shows Owen Wilson doing his best impression of Woody Allen as the screenwriter and novelist Gil who finds himself able to travel back in time to the glory days of the 1920s with his materialistic fiancée during a trip to Paris. Gil encounters the greatest artists and writers of the period including Gertrude Stein F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Cotillard plays a fictional character named Adriana a Picasso maid with whom Gil falls immediately in love. Although Gil romanticizes 1920’s Paris, Adriana romanticizes 1890’s Paris and c
laims she’d do anything to be able to go back in time and not be able to see the beautiful era she’s living in. The film has received some of the best reviews from Allen in the last few years. 6/6.247 Source: Warner Brothers
7. Nine
Rob Marshall’s follow-up to his musical Chicago hit film adaptation is generally regarded as a star-studded flop. The musical is based on a classic 8 1?2 film by Fellini and is about a filmmaker struggling with his personal and professional life. In the film which co-stars Daniel Day-Lewis Penelope Cruz Nicole Kidman Kate Hudson and Sophia Loren Cotillard had to sing and dance. Cotillard plays the main character’s wife Luisa Contini who is suffering from his adultery. Cotillard was seen in the movie performing with her largest supporting cast to date but it was deemed a commercial and critical disappointment. Even though seeing the actress do such a romantic musical of song and dance numbers is worth seeing to get a full understanding of her career because of how different it is from other films she’s made. Recently Cotillard spoke of her disappointment at the film’s reception to The Huffington Post saying: I love this film and this film is here forever now and I know that Rob Marshall loves this film too and is really proud of it. I don’t know if you really need to explain why that wasn’t working. · It was a bit painful that there was no audience there. Source 6/6.249 Universal Pictures
8. Public Enemies
This gangster film co-starring Johnny Depp was Cotillard’s first major Hollywood effort and sees her playing mobster girlfriend Billie Frechette, and bank robber John Dillinger. The movie follows Dillinger’s final years as a fugitive as well as his investigation by the FBI. Heavily researched Frechette’s life to prepare for the role of Cotillard and met with members of her family. In this film preparation, Cotillard again worked hard on language to speak in a French-Canadian-Menominee-Wisconsin-Chicago accent, and only spoke English during the three months of filming. 6/6.250 6/6.250 Source:
9 of the following films. La Vie En Rose
Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers said Piaf’s songs are orchestrated by Rotten Tomatoes Marion Cotillard and digging into her soul with urgency gale-force gives an age-old performance. @Jacqui WSCS
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