Bob Boyett on La Vie en Rose

In Variety, multiple Tony Award winner Bob Boyett recently gave high praise to La Vie en Rose and Marion:

"Marion Cotillard and the director Olivier Dahan have captured one of the most compelling portraits of a very rare and special person that I've ever seen anywhere. It is haunting. Piaf obviously had a great talent, but Dahan goes underneath to expose this extremely raw person who did have incredible relationships and did benefit from them, but in the long run she had a lot of hard knocks along the way. People sometimes think her problems were self-imposed, but from early on she had a lot of physical and mental problems. It's the story of an extraordinary spirit. For two or three days after seeing this film, I couldn't get it out of my head."

Quick update

Happy New Year, all! Here are just a few little bullets:

The Austin Chronicle has given Marion Cotillard a spot on their Acting Kudos list. Three women and three men are picked annually:

ACTING KUDOS (MALE): Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), Kurt Russell (Grindhouse, "Death Proof"), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

ACTING KUDOS (FEMALE): Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), Adrienne Shelly (Waitress), Samantha Morton (Control)

Variety has an interesting article/interview with La Vie en Rose cinematographer Tetsuo Nagata, where they talk about the challenges behind the shot of Piaf's breakdown after she learns of Marcel's plane crash. The scene was done all in one cut, and each time the camera panned around the crew had to hide all the equipment. Says Nagata:

"I don't think it was perfect, but Marion's performance was so amazing that nobody noticed."

Also, if you attend San Juan College, you can catch a screening of La Vie en Rose tomorrow. Details here.

Profile

Variety has a nice little profile on Marion in its latest issue. The trade magazine goes out on a limb and predicts that (gasp!) Marion is an Oscar contender! Here's an excerpt:

"When I saw that the fourth day of shooting for me was a scene in 1960 when she hears the song 'No Regrets,' I was really scared," Cotillard says. But getting the climax out of the way early proved an unexpected blessing. "If we had saved the aging for the end of the movie, I would have been paralyzed with fear." More...