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Guillaume Canet Casts Marion Cotillard and Their Children in Cult Drama 'Karma'

opinion-review · 2026-10-20

Guillaume Canet directs his former partner Marion Cotillard and their two children in 'Karma', a fiction film that blends fantasy with social chronicle. Le Monde's review describes the mix of the fantastical and the socially observational as clumsy. The casting places a real-life separated family at the center of a story about sectarian madness. The film is a French production covered by Le Monde in its culture section on October 20, 2026.

Key facts

  • Guillaume Canet directed the film 'Karma'
  • Marion Cotillard, Canet's former partner, stars in the film
  • The couple's two children also appear in the cast
  • The film is a fiction work
  • 'Karma' combines fantasy and social chronicle
  • Le Monde's review calls the blend of genres clumsy
  • The story centers on sectarian madness
  • Le Monde published its article on October 20, 2026

Entities

Artists

  • Guillaume Canet
  • Marion Cotillard
  • Denis Ménochet
  • Marine Atlan
  • Gessica Généus
  • Alex Huston Fischer
  • Eleanor Wilson
  • Olivia Colman
  • Alexander Skarsgård

Institutions

  • Le Monde
  • France 24
  • À l'Affiche !

Locations

  • France
  • Spain
  • Pompeii
  • Italy
  • Haiti

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