Marion Cotillard: This unexpected scene reminds us what a great actress she is

Whether or not Marion Cotillard is one of our greatest actresses is certainly no longer up for debate. In addition to her two Césars (for The Long Engagement Week and La Môme), her BAFTA and Oscar, she has never ceased to impress and amaze us in the three decades she has graced the big screen.

And Little Girl Blue represents a new peak in a career that they have not been missing. In the film, released on November 15, which is at the intersection of documentary and fiction, she plays the mother of its director, Mona Achache. Thanks to the texts, photos and notes of the main stakeholder and ghosts like him.

His transformation scene is especially striking. If we acknowledge Marion Cotillard throughout the film, which contributes to the director’s desired destabilization and dreaminess, seeing her as Carol Achachi is impressive. By reproducing his voice and gestures, in dialogue with the director or during playback.

We clearly think of the way in which the actress became Edith Piaf, giving herself body and soul to the point of saying that she was haunted by the singer. But the exercise is even more dangerous because it is more intimate and the transformation is not limited to what happens next.

Little Girl Blue shows the way in which Marion Cotillard slips into the skin of her character and does not hide the obstacles she stumbles over, as well as making the film a document of the actor’s working method. And another proof that it is one of the best in France.

“I’ve never done anything so hard in my life.”, sighs in one scene. And, although the company may fall apart from the first, destabilizing moments, it presents an amazing performance, disappearing into character to produce such a strong emotion as it is unexpected.