It’s been a bit of an odd year for Marion Cotillard. On the festival front she failed to connect with “From The Land Of The Moon,” while Xavier Dolan‘s “It’s Only The End Of The World” got a mixed reception from critics at Cannes and still doesn’t have U.S. distribution. Meanwhile, at the multiplex, the WWII spy movie “Allied” flopped and this month’s “Assassin’s Creed” doesn’t look so hot. However, she’ll start the new year with “Rock ‘n Roll,” her third time taking a role in a film directed by her partner Guillaume Canet, following “Blood Ties” and “Little White Lies.”
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With Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Lefebvre, Camille Rowe, Kev Adams, Ben Foster, Maxim Nucci, Yarol Poupaud, Alain Attal, Yvan Attal, Johnny Hallyday and Laëticia Hallyday in support, the film finds Canet playing a version of himself, an actor who has a crisis and decides to change his life when a younger actress tells him he’s falling down the list of “bangable” actors. It’s perhaps not the most sophisticated premise, but perhaps it could be a bit of breezy fun.
“Rock ‘N Roll” opens in France on February 15, 2017. No word yet on when it will cross stateside, but I’m guessing it’ll do some festival rounds throughout next year. [Premiere]
