For those who aren’t fluent or don’t know French, here is the trailer for Rust and Bone with subtitles:

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Underscoring the enduring biz clout of director-driven filmmaking, Jacques Audiard’s Marion Cotillard starrer “Rust and Bone” comes into the Cannes competition pre-sold almost throughout the world.

Wild Bunch Germany, Vertigo (Spain), Hopscotch (Australia), Studiocanal (the U.K.) and BIM Distribuzione (Italy) all closed deals. UGC distributes in France.

Other deals include Switzerland (GMH), Portugal (Atalanta), China (DDDream) and Israel (United King). Only Asia is outstanding, Celluloid Dreams’ Hengameh Panahi, “Rust’s” sales agent, said Wednesday, noting that the shingle has multiple offers from Scandinavia.

Sony Pictures Classics closed North America, Latin America and Eastern Europe in late January.

For Panahi, the pre-sales for “Rust” illustrate the value of nursing a director’s career. Audiard’s “The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” which first teamed the helmer, Celluloid Dreams and Why Not Prods., took two years to sell, Panahi said. Audiard’s breakthrough, 2010 Cannes competition player “A Prophet,” sold out on the Croisette in three days.

“Today’s international market has accelerated enormously. Great directors create a network of faithful distributors, easing the sales process,” Panahi said.

Continuing with the same directors, Celluloid Dreams is selling Takeshi Kitano’s “Outrage Beyond,” his sequel to Cannes 2010 competition player “Outrage,” which Celluloid also handled.

Celluloid Dreams is also onboard its fourth film from Marco Bellocchio, “Dormant Beauty,” and its third from French director Fabienne Godet, “A Place on Earth.”

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I have added new pics of Marion filming Le Grand Journal segment with co star, Matthias Schoenaerts yesterday at Cannes.

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May 16 2012: Le Grand Journal at CannesTweet

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Check out a bunch of sneak peeks of Marion in De rouille et d’os (Rust & Bone) which opens in theatres on May 17 in France:

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Last year on the first day of Cannes, few outside of France had heard of Jean Dujardin. He then went on to win the festival’s Best Actor prize and, months later, an Oscar. You may not be able to pronounce Matthias Schoenaerts’ name now, but after a starring role in Jacques Audiard’s Competition film Rust & Bone opposite Marion Cotillard, this brawny Belgian may just be this year’s breakout star.

After a solid career at home, Schoenaerts exploded onto the global film scene last year with his starring role in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead.
“This experience taught me a lot about myself and about being an actor,” he says of Rust & Bone. “Working with someone like Jacques is something I’ll never forget. It was just incredible.”

In the film, Schoenaerts’ Ali is a burly jock who finds himself homeless and looking for work while also burdened with his young son.
“Ali is an ambiguous character — he’s likeable and funny, but also violent and repugnant,” he explains. “As an actor, I need to like my character. My job is to defend him, so I need to fall in love with the character.”

Cotillard’s Stephanie does fall in love with the character as he helps her cope with her handicap after losing her legs in an amusement park accident.

“He knows he doesn’t have much to offer a woman financially or intellectually. All he has is his body,” he says.

Like he did in Bullhead, Schoenaerts had to physically prepare for his role in Audiard’s drama.

“I’d lost pretty much all of the weight from Bullhead. Then Jacques asked me to bulk up for this role,” but, he adds, “not in the same way as Bullhead — less muscular and more natural.”

Unlike Dujardin, this actor speaks perfect English, with only a slight European accent. Repped by CAA stateside, Schoenaerts will be putting his English lessons to good use when he heads to New York in June for a supporting role in Guillaume Canet’s English-language Blood Ties.

Schoenaerts also has a role in Erik Van Looy’s English-language Loft with Karl Urban.

That doesn’t mean he’s rushing to the spotlight.“I love being the underdog,” he says. “I don’t like when people expect too much, because then I’ll only be disappointed if things don’t work out. I don’t like to think about it. I’ll let life take me where it will.”

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But there may be more to come from the Weinsteins. The plugged in Thompson On Hollywood is hearing that Harv and co. may also snap up the rights to James Gray’s ’20s set immigration drama “Low Life” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner. The Weinsteins have worked with Gray before back in their Miramax days, backing the excellent “The Yards” and it seems their ready to re-up that relationship. Gray had previously told us the film could be ready in time for TIFF, which would be a nice pic for Harv to rep. Right now, the Weinsteins are unloading two mega titles at Cannes in “Lawless” and “Killing Them Softly” and currently have Dustin Hoffman’s “Quartet” and the ’50s set French rom-com “Populaire” waiting in the wings for any kind of fall appearance. “Low Life” would certainly boost that slate.

Anyway, a lot more deals to be done over the next ten days. The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 16-27.

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