Marion Cotillard on Her 'Two Days, One Night' Role: 'I Had Written Her Whole Life Before We Meet Her'

May 13, 2014
Marion Cotillard on Her 'Two Days, One Night' Role: 'I Had Written Her Whole Life Before We Meet Her'
By Peter Debruge It is the voice — lilting, lightly French-accented — that one notices first, even before fully registering the famous face. You notice it because, in the movies, Marion Cotillard so rarely sounds like herself, whether affecting Edith Piaf's nasal warble in her Oscar-winning performance in "La Vie en Rose," the Polish dialect of the 1920s Ellis Island emigre in director James Gray's "The Immigrant," or her Belgian regional accent a... Full Story on Variety.com→
Outgoing Cannes President Gilles Jacob Reflects on Fest's Past and Future By Scott Foundas Seated at his desk in a third-floor office at the Cannes Film Festival's Paris headquarters, Gilles Jacob exudes the calm, patrimonial authority of a lion in winter — or, as Jacob likes to describe himself, a veteran fire chief who has weathered all manner of blaze. After nearly 40 years heading the world's most important and influential film festival, there is little that can dent his Teflon exterior, and as this king of Cannes prepares to... Full Story→	CANNES: Star-Studded Pre-Sales Events Lure International Buyers By Gregg Goldstein For nearly seven decades, top talent has descended on the Croisette for splashy parties and black-tie movie premieres. But in the past couple years, more and more actors and directors have been arriving in Cannes, Berlin and AFM for equally star-studded events before a frame of their films has been shot, simply to persuade buyers to get their projects into theaters — or even off the ground. The rebounding world economy, a glut of films, package... Full Story→	Variety Critics on Films They Can't Miss at Cannes By Justin Chang, Peter Debruge and Scott Foundas Variety critics talk the can't-miss pics at this year's Cannes Film Festival -- and attempt to do so in 140 characters or less. (Click image for large preview.) Full Story→
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