Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard grapples with the emotional fallout from an unfinished tryst as the bisexual Marie in today’s exclusive clip from ensemble drama Little White Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs). Directed by Cotillard’s long-time partner Guillaume Canet, the film unfolds on the beaches of Lège-Cap-Ferret near Bordeaux, where a vacationing group of friends negotiate sexual politics and a web of secrets and betrayals over copious bottles of vin rouge. "Most of the actors are friends, and this place in the south of France is where almost all of us go for vacation,” says Cotillard, who, aptly, plays an anthropologist in the movie. “It was weird for us sometimes, having a different name and different behavior, but also parts of yourself in your character. It created a dynamic which could be uncomfortable but really interesting." Canet (who also directed 2006 thriller Tell No One), was inspired by Lawrence Kasdan’s college-reunion drama The Big Chill and John Cassavetes’ tale of middle-aged ennui, Husbands, for his part-improvised script, which also stars François Cluzet and Jean Dujardin. Little White Lies opens in UK theaters on April 15.