Five years after receiving the Donostia Award, Marion Cotillard has returned to the San Sebastian Festival, but this time to compete for the Golden Shell with the family thriller crossed by politics 7h40 ce matin-là. In the film, she plays a former leftist revolutionary who, after 15 years in prison, reunites with the son she abandoned for armed struggle, who is now an adult working as a mechanic in a garage. Like in the thriller about cults Karma, which she presented at the last Cannes Festival, Cotillard moves away from her glamorous image as an official Chanel ambassador. Here she is a tough and opaque woman, who seeks a job as a waitress in a provincial town to be close to her son and watch him; sometimes she talks to him, but without ever revealing her identity, like a silent spy with a secret agenda.

Seventy-five years after Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, the Costa Brava continues to be a magnet for international film shoots. But this time, we don't see Ava Gardner strolling through Tossa de Mar, but rather Marion Cotillard in Port de la Selva, in one of the films being presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival these days, Karma, directed by her now ex-husband Guillaume Canet, from whom she separated shortly after filming the movie.

In Marion Cotillard She doesn't hesitate to play with her image as a great diva of modern French cinema. She already did it in the drama Family Matters by Arnaud Desplechin, where she played a proud actress entrenched in her hatred towards a writer brother, and now she returns to the role of a famous actress in The Ice Tour, by the French Lucile Hadzihalilovic, a modern and perverse reinterpretation of the tale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen which was presented this Sunday in the competition of the Berlinale.