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I thought at first that the N.Y. Observer's Sara Vilkomerson had echoed my view that Marion Coltillard's Public Enemies performance "is an award-quality nail-down," in part because "no dramatic actress in recent memory has conveyed as much intestinal steel." I was led to think so by an online friend who said she'd climbed aboard the Cotillard train, etc. But then I read her piece ("We Say Oui to Marion Cotillard") and realized all she was saying was that her "total and unabashed girl-crush" was going "stronger than ever."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM

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Rothchild says ...

Gong Li was much better.

Posted by Rothchild at July 5, 2009 1:11 PM

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Jean says ...

Cotillard was great in PE, but was it anywhere close to her performance in La Vie en Rose? Nope. I just don't think there was enough for her to do onscreen.

Posted by Jean at July 5, 2009 1:19 PM

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Ulysses says ...

The wife and I were set to see Public Enemies this morning, but she fell and sprained her ankle, so we ended up spending a few hours in the ER. I'm looking forward to seeing Public Enemies still. Cotillard is an unknown quantity to me , since I haven't seen any of her movies. I am going to Netflix the Piaf film in a few.

Posted by Ulysses at July 5, 2009 2:27 PM

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Rod32303 says ...

LOVED Cotillard in this. The Piaf performance is brilliant, but this one is...different. For me, more naked and as present and real as any performance this year. I found myself missing her when she wasn't on screen...though I am still waiting for Cheri and Pfeiffer's much lauded performance. Anyone (Jeff?) seen it?

Posted by Rod32303 at July 5, 2009 2:34 PM

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Chicago48 says ...

Gong Li? Could you understand her? I couldn't.

Posted by Chicago48 at July 5, 2009 2:58 PM

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Hillbillly says ...

The French actress was awful , she was as bad as the film itself besides not being that attractive. Dont get me started on how bad Bale was.
Mann has lost it.

When you look as good as Gong Li, who cares how you sound.

Posted by Hillbillly at July 5, 2009 3:27 PM

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Sonic Boom says ...

She was fine but Oscar-worthy? Nah.

Posted by Sonic Boom at July 5, 2009 4:34 PM

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Terry McCarty says ...

Re Ulysses post:
PUBLIC ENEMIES is the best Mann cops-and-robbers genre film since HEAT.

Posted by Terry McCarty at July 5, 2009 7:00 PM

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hunterd says ...

I have never seen a movie starring this woman before, but she is fuckin' magnetic. I can't remember the last time a woman's beauty took me so profoundly in a film...perhaps Match Point...or Elie Idol (google her).

Posted by hunterd at July 5, 2009 9:43 PM

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hunterd says ...

Maybe it's just that she reminds me of Regina Spektor, whom I have long had a crush on...

Posted by hunterd at July 5, 2009 9:46 PM

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Hallick says ...

Cotillard's wonderful, and her "fat boy" speech in Enemies is the kind of transcendence that keeps movie lovers ALIVE, but she's still playing the goddamn girlfriend character here. The character that's all edge and self-sufficiency in the beginning, then wimpery dependent mush by the end (save for the interrogation scene, which is again, a miniature masterpiece). Added to that, she disappears for too long in a lot of the film.

Save for a desperate year in the Supporting Actress category, she won't be in the running.

Posted by Hallick at July 5, 2009 10:41 PM

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