Marion Cotillard chatting away.

Just when we were sick and tired of cinema screenings and movie premiere parties (Hello nomination-baiting season!), The Cinema Society alongside Dior and Vanity Fair hosted one of its best shindigs yet, at the legendary Indochine restaurant following a showing of the Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard’s 2012 French-Belgian film, which stars Marion Cotillard and dizzyingly sexy Matthias Schoenaerts.

“I’m gonna need eight glasses of Champagne to lift myself up from that one!” one power publicist bellowed to The Observer over the roaring crowd.

“But Marion Cotillard was just amazing!”

This writer unfortunately missed the screening in order to support wounded U.S. servicemen and women uptown for Stand Up For Heroes event, which featured performances by John Mayer, Roger Waters and Bruce Springsteen.

We were hoping for a sighting and perhaps to bavarder with the Oscar-winner.

"Marion had to immediately catch an international flight," one social stalwart dutifully informed us. Of course she had plenty of time to pose for the cameras in her Dior couture, flashing her wondrous baby-bump.

Those that did turn out for the Indochine post-bash made the night memorable. Mischievous attendees included Harley Vieira Newton, Jean-Marc Houmard, Katie Lee, Nan Bush and Bruce Weber, Stefano Tonchi, the mouthy Amy Sacco, Isiah Whitlock and Donna D'Cruz, who off-duty on the DJ gig for the evening.

“I think it’s the food!’ suggested a male model, whose name escaped us.

“These mushroom things and the filet mignon!” he raved between bites.

We schmoozed with model Johannes Huebl and admired Ellen von Unwerth dancing skills. An attempt to question Emma Watson about the premise of the film resulted in a chic pout; her smart phone was of more interest.

The film, which takes place in Antibes, we were told, follows a young man who develops a bond with a whale trainer and traces how their relationship intensifies after a tragic accident. It won critical acclaim at Cannes and the BFI Film Festival. So we shall see how it plays with American audiences. It is en Français.

We got a few words with the Belgian star, Matthias Schoenaerts, but most of it was in Flemish… “I am very excited about the film,” was about all our infantile Nederland skills could reward us.

Nonetheless, the night was about celebration and good vibes. Signature Belvedere cocktails like the Rust and Bone mojitos kept conversation lively and bodies loose until well after midnight.

We told the host of evening and The Cinema Society founder, Andrew Saffir that this was our favorite fête of his thus far. He was unfazed and just smiled politely. With that, we were off to Norwood to continue our foolish, but fabulous escapades.

According to city records, he paid $14.995 million to Coach president and executive creative director Reed Krakoff. That’s nearly a half million more than Mr. Waters got for three apartments he sold last year at the glossy Olympic Tower.

But this deal has been an incredibly long time coming. City records show his contract was signed in June 2006: Back then, The Observer reported on the deal without knowing that the Floyd singer (and songwriter, and bassist) was the buyer.

So Mr. Waters, bless his psychedelic soul, will have himself a townhouse built by “an army of French craftsmen,” according to the listing with Brown Harris Stevens brokers Paula Del Nunzio and Shirley A. Mueller. The French hardware is “done in nickel and silver” (except in the glass bathrooms, or the Macasar Ebony powder room.) Even the light toggle switches are nickel.

But don’t forget the 26-foot wall of glass over the planted garden, the double-height living room, the five-floor elevator, or the nine Louis XVI-period fireplaces.

Floyd’s more rebellious fans, the ones who cry when listening to The Wall, might be sorry to hear that Mr. Waters also has Louis XVI parquet floors and lots of Louis XVI stone—in the kitchen, the master bedroom, and on the rear terrace. (Maybe that’s why Vogue and House & Garden has photographed the house.)

Symbols of late-60's rebellion really live very well in the mid-00’s.

Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers has Mr. Krakoff to thank for the townhouse--because the place was "gut renovated and entirely rebuilt" by the Coach mogul. But Mr. Krakoff has more work ahead: In November, his newly-purchased $17 million townhouse on East 70th Street was gutted in a massive fire.