The Paris-born Oscar winner has appeared in 12 films in Cannes over the years. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Cotillard has appeared in 12 films at Cannes. None, amazingly, are La Vie En Rose, the ...

CANNES REVIEW: Marion Cotillard, as an amputee whale trainer, is both raw and lovely in Jacques Audiard's gritty film. By Todd McCarthy Matthias Schoenaerts (left) and Marion Cotillard play a couple ...

The two highest honors a filmmaker can receive are the Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. The Oscar has clout, the Palme d’Or éclat. Both signal peer recognition of jobs superbly ...

can be chilly. The camera is unflinching and unapologetic, whether capturing images of great beauty or gritty realism. It must be so, in order to temper the film’s steaming-hot plot melodramatics. It ...

There’s no better actress working than Marion Cotillard. The winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for 2007’s “La vie en rose” in which she played Edith Piaf, the French actress has since gone on ...

"I'm hungry," are the first words spoken in French director Jacques Audiard's tough-as-nails love story Rust and Bone. The line comes from a little boy named Sam whose apparently homeless father Ali ...

Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard in "Rust and Bone." Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a tough guy, both inside and out. At least, he acts as if he is. So tough that he gets into street fights ...

Merely the premise of "Rust and Bone" sounds uncomfortably maudlin: A wayward single father and part-time fighter falls into an unexpected romance with a beautiful whale trainer who's just lost both ...

Simply put, “Rust and Bone” is a touching, poetic story of people who’ve been dealt a bad hand in life. There’s no build-up to a climax, no twists and turns and no jaw-dropping end — this could be the ...