Marion Cotillard naked in "Chloé" (1996)
I have given her career so much exposure since my review of her brilliant performance in La Vie en Rose in 2007 that I should be getting an agent's commission.
If you don't have the patience to wade through my entire review, and who could blame you, here are the comments pertaining specifically to her:
"Whether you appreciate Piaf's cultural importance or not, it's still an interesting story delivered around a tremendous central performance by Marion Cotillard. It would not be SOP for a French performance in a French film to receive a best actress nomination from the Oscars. The Academy likes to honor its own, of course, but if they were ever going to make an exception, this would be the time. The film is good, albeit not Best Picture good, but the performance is definitely Best Actress good. That was young and old Piaf up there on screen, both played convincingly by the 30ish Marion Cotillard."
If you are an Oscar buff, you know that this is one of those rare occasions when I was right. She was not only nominated as Best Actress, but won! She became the first French actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for a French-language performance.
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