Midnight in Paris: Marion Cotillard recounts her “bizarre” filming with Woody Allen

The star does not think of working with the director again.

In light of the sexual assault scandals that broke out in Hollywood in 2017, the affair Woody Allen returned to the heart of the news, 25 years after the fact. Dylan Farrow once again accused her adoptive father of touching her when she was a child, and the director defended himself in an open letter.

Sexual assault: the Woody Allen affair comes to light, the director responds

At that time, several actors indicated that they no longer wanted to work under his direction: Rebecca Hall And Timothée Chalamet paid their earned salary for Rainy Day in New York to charitable associations, Colin Firth, Greta Gerwig or Elliot Page have expressed their regrets about accepting roles in his films. Met by The Hollywood Reporter during an event organized by Unifrance, Marion Cotillardwho was the star of Midnight in Paris, in 2011, in turn reacted to the affair. It was January 2018.

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Rebecca Hall and Timothee Chalamet no longer want to work with Woody Allen

“I didn’t know much about his personal life, actually, the French star then explained. I knew he had married one of his daughters. Honestly, I found it strange, but I couldn’t judge, since I didn’t know the bottom of the story. I still don’t know today what he did or didn’t do, but I can see that people are suffering, and it’s terrible. I have to say that if he offered me a new role today, I would ask more questions, I would dig into this story. Well, I don’t think that’s going to happen, because our shared experience was weird. I admire many of his films, but we had no connection on set.”

More generally, the actress judged the movement #MeToo “necessary. It’s a great revolution, there are so many women who have been in this situation. It’s very important to talk about it.”

When it was released in 2011, Midnight in Paris was a hit. In France, it is the director’s fourth biggest success, with 1.7 million admissions. Alone Manhattan, Vicky Cristina Barcelona And The Purple Rose of Cairo had done better during his long career.

Here is the review of First published during its opening of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. At that time, it was not the accusations against the New York director that were being debated, but the fact that he had hired the actress Carla-Bruni Sarkory for this project, then that her husband held the position of president of the country.

“Woody Allen regains its lightness with Midnight in Paris. Let’s clarify things from the outset: Carla Bruni Sarkozy has an insignificant role in the new Woody Allen and she’s not particularly amazing. In fact, her tourist guide character could have been played by any French actress who had a cameo in Woody Allen would have been more profitable than for our First Lady…

Independently of this questionable choice (like that, moreover, of Gad Elmalehunderemployed, who appears in 4 shots of 5 seconds each), Midnight in Paris is a light and charming film whose premise obeys a poetic license of which Allen has the secret (let’s remember The Purple Rose of Cairo, Alice Or Harry in all his states): either a failed writer, author of screenplays for Hollywood, who, one drunken evening, finds himself catapulted into Paris in the 1920s where he meets Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso, Dali, and so on. The same leap into the past happens every evening…

Reflection on creation and the passing of time (was it better before?), Midnight in Paris is the film of an old man who is always alert and lucid, who is not afraid to be self-critical (who better than him embodies the immobility of which his character seems trapped?) while paying homage to the artists who have influenced him. If Midnight in Paris does not always escape the ease, or even the explanation of text, he shines with his superiorly subtle dialogues and the interpretation ofOwen Wilsona naturally Allenian character with his unique art of shift.”