“Allied” Watch Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard in new featurette

The 64-year-old filmmaker favours an economical approach to shooting a movie, and never goes out for more footage than he needs.

The film takes place in World War II-era Morocco and England, which lend itself to some *seriously* handsome clothes-all of which were created by Joanna Johnston. Starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, the film is a love letter to Hollywood’s old-fashioned, wartime love stories that Zemeckis learned his love of the craft by watching. In theaters everywhere November 23.

Allied hits cinemas worldwide from Wednesday. Of course, the accusations of adultery are merely rumors, but it is hard to entirely push the real-life drama out of your head when you are watching the relationship between Pitt and Cotillard unfold on screen.

Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and actors Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard used the United Kingdom as a production base for the Second World War movie Allied, but also filmed scenes on location in the Canary Islands. The film begins to fall apart in the final act, when the story begins to feel drawn out and slightly ridiculous, as Max’s suspicions begin to get the better of him, and make him act rashly.

Allied is a solid three-star movie – not exactly a compliment, but indicative that it’s reasonably entertaining and that some effort went into key aspects like casting, story and production.

The film features very strong homages to Casablanca both in the setting and in how it portrays war.

Zemeckis was pleased that his leads looked natural and of the time in the clothes. I don’t want to shoot any more than I absolutely have to,”he said”.

Under orders from organizers, Cotillard strode the red carpet first – but then Pitt rushed to her side. She was also delighted to be sporting garments similar to her childhood idols like Ingrid Bergman and Katharine Hepburn.

That’s not even the film’s first respiration-stopping moment; that honour belongs to the time when Max and Marianne first make love in an automobile in the Moroccan desert, while a sandstorm swirls outside.

Mr. Pitt is an American actor playing a Canadian intelligence officer pretending to be a French businessman with a bad Parisian accent.

That insider says Pitt broke the ice by walking over to Cotillard and greeting her with a “kind of weird” high-five. And this Oscar-winning helmer (“Forrest Gump”, 1994) “is more than capable of making every aspect of it work on screen”. Later, when Max returns to London to help with the war effort from behind a desk, he brings Marianne with him and the two marry.

The actor has kept a low profile since his split from Angelina Jolie in September.

Marion Cottilard is pregnant with her second child to her long-term partner, Guillaume Canet.

Marion Cotillard’s character is first described by her purple dress, so obviously it had to be iconic.

JJ: “I had this idea that her character could have a little cape, and we could do a painting on the inside”. “I said everything I had to say about it. I’m not the one who is in the very complicated situation”. Suddenly Cotillard’s performance seems to become more complex, and you finally see the chemistry between them that the early part of the film seemed to lack.