Marion Cotillard's Road to Oscar©: Marion on French TV

Monday, February 25, 2008

Marion on French TV

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Delsa said...: Ok, here's my attempt at a translation. It's weird. I hate those kind of shows but well, I'll watch them any day for Marion.

[Le Grand Journal (Biggest French pay tv channel Canal +'s most important daily show)'s gingle with presentator Michel Denisot]

M.D :Here we are with... [says the name of the guests, must have been after an advertising break...].

Tonight Marion Cotillard made world cinema's history by becoming the first French actress to ever win the biggest movie award for a French-speaking film : the Oscar for her performance in La Môme [The Kid, French title of La Vie En Rose].

Laurent Weil [Canal +'s movie specialized journalist since what...15 years maybe?...] is in Los Angeles with Marion Cotillard.

Good evening to you both. Good evening Marion. Le Grand Journal's audience is applauding you. You've got the Oscar in your hands.

L.W : Here it is, Michel.

M.D : Of course we want to know everything. We're going to ask you a lot of questions. First this extremely simple one :What did you feel when you heard Forest Whitaker saying your name?

Marion [with a broken voice... Too much partying?! lol) : I haven't really analysed this situation yet. Well, my heart started to beat very strongly when the best actress category came. I didn't think I'd be in such a state in fact. And...erm... yes, I was overwhelmed by so many things. So, yeah...Overwhelmed. I'd say that is the good word maybe.

M.D : So the bottom-line of your acceptance speech was very short, very poetic...

Marion : Yes, but you know it has to be short!

M.D : Yes, I know. The Oscar time limit is 45 seconds if I'm not mistaken. [Marion in the background : Yes, that's it.] But it was very heartfelt/spot-on and very moving. Was it pre-written or spontaneous?

Marion : Erm... Well it was the very first time that I had actually tried to prepare something and in fact I completely forgot all that I had prepared [LOL! But that was to be expected...] so I tried to make do with what was at hand/to get by as best as I could. [laughs a bit embarassed]

M.D. : And it came out great. We will see this moment again.

L.W. : I'd like to point out [M.D in the background : Yes, Laurent...] that Marion said that there were really angels in the "City Of Angels" and I found it very nice.

Marion : Yeah... well, yes... This particular idea came to me on the morning...

M.D. : So let's see this historical moment again.

[show Ze extract, lol]

A.M [another host Ariane Massenet] : So Marion... You can get the girl out of France but you can't get France out of the girl. You were wearing a magnifiscent dress by French couturier Jean-Paul Gautier, right? And is this Oscar the end of the buckle since you won the César, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA as well...? Is this a sad ending, a relief?

Marion : No, I'm happy it is getting to an end. This adventure was so beautiful. It started more than two years ago already when counting the preparation and the shooting. So yesterday night was in a way the final "clap" [you know this movie-making accessory? Same word in English, isn't it?] of this journey, at least for me because our film is still there continuing its proper adventure. But it was a great final clap.

M.D : How did the evening went?

Marion : Well, the show is rather funny in fact. There are a lot of advertisement breaks so it is not like the César at all. There are times for pausing a bit...

[All the hosts in Paris together : No! After, after! What about the after-parties?]

Marion : Oooohhh. Well, a whirlwing. I met a lot of great people.

L.W : You gave a lot of interviews I assume. With some American tv channels, notably.

Marion : Yes, after there are press rooms and everything. We are asked to give interviews, pause for photos. And then, there are different parties to which you are invited. And we ended up in Prince's house in which he was doing a concert with Stevie Wonder. It was quite surreal. [laughs]

[Everybody is impressed]

M.D : What were the compliments which touched you most?

Marion : Oh. It's complicated to repeat the compliments I've been told, well at least to do it myself. But...

A.M : It's said that you met George Clooney on the eve of the cermony and he said to you that he had adored the movie. Is it true?

Marion : Yes. And it was somewhat funny because we had already met before and [problem with her ear system] he had already told me that he had found the film fantastic and in fact it wasn't true! [laughs] He admitted to me 2 days before that he only saw it a week ago and that then, yes, he had loved it. So, indeed it is rather pleasant to receive compliments from people like him.

L.W : Just to inform you, Michel and Ariane, that during the red carpet interviews conducted by Dider Allouche [the guy making the Oscar night coverage in France], all the persons who stopped by to answer, had a[n unprompted] word for Marion Cotillard. We felt the buzz gaining momentum it was absolutely incredible.

We experienced this live on Canal +. All the actresses and actors : Clooney, Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz... seemed impressed by Marion's performance.

And many newspapers, wether from New York or Los Angeles this morning have Marion Cotillard and Forest Whitaker on their first pages [shows one].

It's true that we didn't get much sleep last night. I watched the television here during most of the night and Marion Cotillard is dubbed "The French little mermaid" because she had a JPG dress with sparkling scales indeed so that's how they nicknamed her during this night.

[the audience applauds]

M.D. : Thank you. Now you've made world cinema's history by interpreting the role of a star in her own right, by embodying Édith Piaf which is also quite particular and original in movies.

Marion : Yes, it is true that the journey of the movie is quite astonishing regarding what she lived here [in the US] when she arrived and the way she was welcomed in the US. It is true that i can't help making some comparisaons with what I have been living and the way I've been so welcomed here.

A.M : Speaking of this, you said that Olivier Dahan had changed your life. How do you imagine this new life?

Marion : Well, right now I don't imagine it. I live it. It's true it's been two years that I didn't spend much time back in France. Tomorrow, I fly to Chicago to shoot a movie by Michael Mann. I'm going to spend 3 months there. So that's the way, my life has changed. In all the great persons I meet, in this chirlwind which I enjoy enormously so far.

M.D. : You sang a bi in the press room. If you're ready to do it again, we could hear you now or if not we will show this clip of you yesterday night again.

Marion : Oh no, please. Yesterday I still had a little bit of my voice left. [laughs] I don't know what went through my head. I sang a bit of Padam. I was overjoyed so...

M.D.: Yes, so we'll use the last seconds we have left of this liaison with you in Los Angeles to wish you a great continuation to your career, a great life [he actually says that...], a great shooting of your next movie [Marion : Thank you.] And all France is proud of you. It's a simple but sincere message, like yours.

[All the audience cheers]

M.D. : Thanks lot Marion Cotillard. And thank you Laurent. We will end this meeting by listening to your singing. It was last night in front of our American counterparts.

[Shows the extract, the audience cheers]

M.D : Oscar for Best Actress, yesterday night, for her role in La Môme.

The End. ;-); February 25, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Dorothy Porker said...: You ROCK, delsa. THANK YOU!; February 25, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Anonymous said...: thank you SO much for the translation! You just "rocked my life" :-p; February 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Anonymous said...: she is BEAUTIFUL !! wow !; February 26, 2008 at 8:46 AM
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Awards

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Marion's Wins as of Today:

-Academy Award (Best Actress)
-Golden Globe Award (Best Actress - Musical/Comedy)
-BAFTA Film Award (Best Actress)
-César Award (Best Actress)

-Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc. (Best Actress)

-London Film Critics Award (Actress of the Year)

-Czech Lion (Best Actress)
-Boston Society of Film Critics (Best Actress)
-Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival (Virtuoso Award)
-Golden Satellite (Best Actress - Drama)
-Cabourg Romantic Film Festival (Best Actress)
-Hollywood Film Festival (Actress of the Year)
-Seattle International Film Festival (Best Actress)
-Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival (Breakthrough)
-African American Film Critics Assoc. (Best Actress)
-Golden Star Award (Best Actress)
-Kansas City Film Critics Circle (Best Actress)
-InterNational Online Cinema Award (Best Actress)

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Marion's Nominations for "La Vie En Rose" (Winners Yet to Be Determined):

NONE -- Marion got her Oscar!

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Marion's Nominations for "La Vie en Rose":
-European Film Award (Best Actress)
-Broadcast Film Critics Assoc. (Best Actress)
-Screen Actors Guild Award (Best Actress)
-Chicago Film Critics (Best Actress)
-National Society of Film Critics (First Runner Up, Best Actress)
-Richard Attenborough Award (Actress of the Year)
-St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Assoc. (Best Actress)
-Detroit Society of Film Critics (Best Actress)
-Dallas Forth-Worth Film Critics Assoc. (Best Actress)
-Online Film Critics Society (Best Actress)
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Praise

"Marion Cotillard’s feral portrait of the French singer Édith Piaf as a captive wild animal hurling herself at the bars of her cage is the most astonishing immersion of one performer into the body and soul of another I’ve ever encountered in a film." Stephen Holden, The New York Times.

"Marion Cotillard goes to the front of the line for every Best Actress award out there...Cotillard, lip-syncing Piaf's songs and digging into her soul with gale-force urgency, gives a performance for the ages." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.

"Marion Cotillard astonishes...a technically virtuosic and emotionally resonant performance." Carina Chocano, The Los Angeles Times.

"Helen Mirren hasn’t been given her Oscar yet and already I’ve seen the first shoo-in for next year’s Best Actress list: the stupendous, heartbreaking Marion Cotillard whose Edith Piaf is nothing less than monumental, a performance for the ages."
Stephen Schaefer, The Boston Herald.

"I'm not usually in the business of hailing a performance as 'award-worthy,' but why is La Vie en Rose, with its furious turn by Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf — less a performance than a possession — coming out in early summer?" Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly.

"In La Vie En Rose...the acting achievement by 31-year-old Marion Cotillard can be compared to Oscar-winning turns by Jamie Foxx in Ray, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, and Helen Mirren in The Queen as a remarkable portrait so uncannily rich and detailed it defies description...Screen acting just doesn't get much better than this...She's flawless, even if her movie isn't." Peter Hammond, Maxim.

"If the goal of acting is to completely lose yourself in the personality of another, Cotillard gives a master class. You walk out of the movie feeling you’ve witnessed an individual going through a profound physical and spiritual transformation. It kind of explains why the ancient Greeks regarded theater as a form of religious worship." Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star.

"Maybe you've heard that the French actress Marion Cotillard gives a great performance in this Edith Piaf biopic. But that over-flogged adjective doesn't really convey how great her performance is. Assisted by expertly designed makeup and prosthetics, Cotillard disappears into the melancholy spirit of the iconic Parisian singer; and with unflagging energy and strikingly precise lip-synchronization, she provides a fresh illumination of Piaf's timeless songs...Cotillard's transformation into the diminutive, birdlike Piaf — who was not conventionally beautiful, beyond the beauty of talent — is so complete that you strive in vain to detect the attractive actress within the uncannily conjured persona...Cotillard's Edith is never less than radiantly convincing...And thanks to Cotillard, Piaf herself, in all her troubled, cantankerous glory, is brought back whole for one final bow." Kurt Loder, MTV.

"Marion Cotillard in 'La Vie en rose' was absolutely astonishing, and the synthesis of the performance with the whole film is superb. As much as inhabiting Piaf, she was also creating a creature, and I thought that was astonishing and inspiring. One of the most remarkable things I've ever seen." Cate Blanchett.

[after winning his BAFTA for Best Actor]:
"Never mind all the other qualities in her astonishing performance. For sheer balls alone, I feel Marion should have this award as well." Daniel Day-Lewis.

"[She] does an old person trying to be young, instead of what everyone does – a young person trying to be old...It's a stunning performance." George Clooney.

"Not only did she craft a flawless impersonation of a famous personality, but Marion's humanity elevated her performance to a devastatingly honest and yet seemingly effortless personification of integrity and grace. To me, this is more than just a great performance; it's a document of this actress's overwhelming ability to love." Ryan Gosling.

"Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. I think that's one of the most extraordinary performances I've ever seen." Keira Knightley.

[describing Marion's performance]:
"Your portrayal of this character is, just, it's like what I was saying earlier to Daniel Day Lewis, transformative; like you transcended, you opened yourself up and poured her in...Another transcendent performance." Oprah Winfrey.

[when asked who he expects to hand the Oscar to in 2008]:
"Marion Cotillard! Did you not see her in 'La Vie En Rose?' She’s transforming! That’s it!" Forest Whitaker.

"Simply the best performance ever." Rosie O'Donnell.

"What a performance by Marion Cotillard. What a story. I felt as if I were actually watching Edith Piaf on screen. For me, her transformation from young to old Edith Piaf was unprecedented in film...Not only did I cry, I sat there with my mouth hanging open at the bravery of Marion's performance. If they give her the Oscar on Academy Award night, they might as well throw the Kodak Theatre in with it. She deserves it all." Marlee Matlin.

"I'm sure you're going to win an Oscar. It is an extraordinary performance; just spectacular." Craig Ferguson.

"One of the greatest performances on film ever." Trevor Nunn.

"I've never seen a performance that's so elastic. She transformed through different ages and time -- I thought the physical changes were remarkable." Julia Stiles.

"Marion Cotillard gave one of the most inspired performances ever — yeah, maybe even better than Meryl Streep!" Ellen Huang.

[Best Actress should go to...]:
"With absolute certainty, Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose — a tour-de-force performance, one of my favorites of the last five years easily. As much as I love Ellen Page, [Cotillard] blows away the competition in her category." Jill Bennett.

Oscar Timetable

Oscar Time Table*

Monday, December 3, 2007: Official Screen Credits forms due
Wednesday, December 26, 2007: Nominations ballots mailed
Saturday, January 12, 2008: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PST
Tuesday, January 22, 2008: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PST, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, January 30, 2008: Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 4, 2008: Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 9, 2008: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, February 19, 2008: Final polls close 5 p.m. PST
Sunday, February 24, 2008: 80th Annual Academy Awards presentation

*Subject to change.

Blog

This blog will focus exclusively on Marion Cotillard's path to the Academy Awards. It is not a fan site, per se, since its existence is limited to a predetermined time (i.e. the blog's life will end next February, 2008). Although I'll surely go on tangents regarding other films and other artists, the purpose is to keep up to date with the latest reviews, interviews and/or accolades of La Vie En Rose and Mlle. Cotillard. I was inspired by Marion's performance enough to chronicle this interesting journey she's on. I truly haven't been moved by a screen performance like this in a long, long time. I'm aware that her success and accomplishments in La Vie En Rose stand alone--in other words, I'm sure "awards" don't really make a performance great or timeless and are tangential to the artistic process. That being said, it seems like a fun idea to follow this crazy process from beginning to end. I hope you enjoy your stay here.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Marion on French TV

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