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There are a couple of ways to look at this first released picture from the Marion Cotillard - Brad Pitt November release, Allied. Your mileage might depend on your feelings about the actors. So if you like them, you might be saying glamourous movie stars! Pretty period costumes! Why isn’t it November yet? If not, your reaction might be that the picture is a bit posed. Maybe a bit too studied. Even cheesy...
But if we look closer we notice the officer in the back, his uniform indicating the WW2 setting of the movie. Do we hear a groan? Pitt. WW2. Again. And after Fury (2014) and Inglorious Basterds (2009) we are right there with you. But this time there is Cotillard. Apparently they are spies, he’s British, she’s French, they meet on a mission and fall in love.
Pitt hasn’t been romantic on screen in a while (sorry Angelina we missed By The Sea). That’s reason for more enthusiasm. Specially if he might look as good as this:
Let’s look even closer, there’s another man in the background. He’s wearing Moroccan garb.
Brad and Marion in Casablanca? Will they grapple with some difficult circumstances like Rick and Ilsa? Maybe now the skeptics are more excited about this movie. But you may say they still look stiff. It’s a still after all. And here’s where our faith in Marion’s ability to create chemistry with her co-stars kicks in. Palpable chemistry, legs or no legs.
Chemistry that made Shakespeare prose more carnal than we've ever seen on screen.
OK Mr Zemeckis, do your worst! We're ready.
Are you ready?