"In her breakout film, modern great Marion Cotillard supplies annoying-girlfriend comic relief for Samy Naceri's gallivanting Marseille taxi driver. The spunkiness and sultriness she gives out in every scene is small beer for her but you've got to start somewhere. There are worse places than in this French box office ram-raider, which spawned a franchise. Beguiling Innocence. Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy"
"A little-seen, highly beguiling Lucile Hadzihalilovic drama in which a group of schoolgirls emerge from coffins and are inculcated into a mysterious boarding school you might call femininity. As dance instructor Mademoiselle Eva, Cotillard is more of a vibe than a character: a smiling stringency. Her utterances, such as Obedience is the only path to happiness, feel right out of a fairytale."
"Big Fish (2003) Cotillard's first English-language film part: a supporting role as the pregnant wife who accompanies Billy Crudup to visit his dying father (Albert Finney) in Tim Burton's fabulist drama. She gets a nice bedside scene as the ailing Finney spins another yarn; with those limpid eyes, there's no one better for credulous reaction shots. An important entree for what, by Gallic actor standards, has been an unusually fruitful Hollywood career."
Marion Cotillard began with a comic-relief role opposite Samy Naceri in a Marseille taxi-driver film that spawned a franchise. She appeared in Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence as Mademoiselle Eva, portraying a dance instructor who embodies a smiling stringency while guiding schoolgirls into a mysterious, feminine boarding school. Her first English-language film was Big Fish (2003), where she played a pregnant wife who provides empathetic bedside presence during a dying father's tales. Cotillard layered melancholy and sharp comic reactions in French hits like Little White Lies, demonstrating range that opened sustained opportunities in Hollywood.
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