1905 Film Network Special Article She used all her strength in each role, waiting for the best time to appear. She never magnifies her true colors, but allows her to immerse herself in the film role and breathe with the character. She is the French actress who was voted the top of the world's "100 Most Beautiful Faces" list - Marion Godia.
The French media praised her: "It's so sweet that you can smile in your dreams." ”
Many people know Marion Cotillard from the French box office title directed by Luc Besson and known as the comedy version of "Fast and Furious" Taxi Express.
Stills from "Taxi Express"
Although Cotillard did not play much in it, her feminine appearance and sweet smile made the audience remember the girl deeply, and she was also nominated for the Best Newcomer Actress Award at the 24th French César Awards with "Taxi Express".
The "Taxi Express" series of movies has made her successful in attracting countless fans, and she has accumulated acting skills and popularity, which has laid the foundation for her to knock on the door of Hollywood.
Five years later, Marion Cotillard, who first tested the waters of Hollywood, tried out a Hollywood fantasy movie "Big Fish".
Stills from Big Fish
But what really made the French actor knock on Hollywood's door was to star in the biopic "Life of the Rose."
Stills from "Life of a Rose"
"Life of the Rose" tells the story of The Incredible Forty-Seven Years of Life of Edith Piaf, France's most famous and beloved legendary female singer.
Her music, which sang the love and life, joy and sorrow of France for half a century, is the best song of the times.
The production team of "Life of the Rose" is very strong, the production cost is also a new high, and it is regarded by the international film industry as the most important French work after "Rodin's Lover" and "Angel Amelie".
In order to match Edith Piaf's romantic feelings, "Rose Life" was grandly released in 800 theaters in France on Valentine's Day on February 14, 2007, setting a record for the largest number of French literary and artistic films.
"My life was completely changed." When she learned that she was going to play Edith Piaf, between the ages of 20 and 47, Marion Cordia was both excited and panicked, "Everyone who knows Piaf is still alive, she is such a legendary figure, I absolutely can't mess it up." 」 They wouldn't allow me to mess up everything, so I had to have a good performance. ”
Interpreting this public figure with an extreme spiritual world and complex life experiences is actually very difficult, in order to truly integrate into the role, Marion Cordia put down the aura of beauty, completely changed her voice, posture and appearance, and successfully showed Edith Piaf's inner world to near perfection.
Her unwillingness and loneliness, talent and anxiety, like Edith Piaf's soul possession, interpreted the life of a generation of "French chanthon queens" to life, reflecting the humility and greatness of life.
Marion Cotillard won the Golden Globe Award, the French César Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress in three major film awards for her performance in the biopic "Life of the Rose".
Defeating the "Big Devil" Kate Blanchett, who competed with her for the Academy Award for Best Actress, made her the second French woman in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the first actress to win an Oscar for a French film.
The film allowed Marion to start her own rose life, and then she appeared frequently in Hollywood movies.
The retro and mysterious temperament in "Midnight in Paris" makes us feel as if we have returned to the golden age of Paris, following the movie through time and space, and falling in love with this lazy and casual woman.
Stills from Midnight in Paris
In Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Marion Cotillard won the Actress of the Year award at the 16th Hollywood Film Awards for her role as a noble and glamorous philanthropist.
Stills from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
In Inception, she is the "dead wife" Mel who has deeply infatuated Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio). Confused eyes and secretive words make people feel as if they are in a "dream".
Stills from Inception
The male protagonist subconsciously, she is cold and determined, while the real she is more confused and hesitant.
This two-sided role was staged again in the love spy movie "Spy Alliance" broadcast by the movie channel today.
Spy League poster
In the film, in order to fulfill the common vision of assassinating the German ambassador, the Allied counterintelligence agent Max (Brad Pitt) and the French spy undercover Marianne (Marion Cotillard) pretend to be husband and wife.
The war-torn Battlefield of Europe, the famous women's balls with red wine and green lights, the surface tranquility is actually hidden in the killing machine.
Stills from The League of Spies
As a spy, Marianne is intelligent and calm and fierce in the face of the battlefield, circling the camp of the undercurrent, but when she returns home, she also has to show the gentleness and virtuousness of being a wife and mother in the eyes of her husband.
During her acting career, Marion Cotillard played the role of the protagonist's wife in several films, ending in tragedies.
Fortunately, in reality, it makes up for the character's regrets.
Just as Natalie Portman met her own Prince Charming through Black Swan, Jennifer Connery met her future husband through A Beautiful Mind, marion Cotillard also met her destined partner, Gyyolme Cane, through Two Little Guesses.
Stills from "Two Little Guesses"
The tragic love on the screen finally continued beyond the screen in reality.
From her debut to becoming a Hollywood superstar, her counterattack took only ten years. Here is lucky, but also has its own strength and unique charm of French women.
Today, Marion Cotillard is still active on the film and television stage, and her rose life will continue to bloom slowly!
At 13:40 on November 2, the movie channel will broadcast "Spy League" starring Marion Cotillard, let's watch the tragic love story under the fire of war.