I am so glad to see that this artists music is being re-exposed to the public. It deserves it, and Marion Cotillard deserves a nomination. Her performance as Piaf is touching, brutal, brash, and tender. Her transformation was stunning, even if it was with the help of a very talented make up department. The only thing they missed was to make her apear as petite as she was. Perhaps, they could have put everyone else up on apple crates so Cotillard would appear more child sized as the real Piaf did. I mean opposite Asso and Cerdan, Piaf should look like a midget! Unfortunatley, I know so much about Piaf's life, that watching this biopic, I found myself keeping score on what Dahan, missed, re-interpreted, left out or invented. Just as I thought he had left out the death of her child, Marcelle, we see it in a flash back. This movie is worth seeing, however, autobigraphies such as the one written by Margaret Crosland and Piaf's own two autobiograpgies offer many more details and insight into the real Piaf phenomenon.
And there is more Piaf to come! After the screening, a young lady was handing out cards announcing a theatre show coming to New York this summer about the French chanteuse! Although, I am assuming there will be no lip syncing in this case! This will be the summer of Paris in New York! A summer of amour! Vive la France!
I am so glad to see that this artists music is being re-exposed to the public. It deserves it, and Marion Cotillard deserves a nomination. Her performance as Piaf is touching, brutal, brash, and tender. Her transformation was stunning, even if it was with the help of a very talented make up department. The only thing they missed was to make her apear as petite as she was. Perhaps, they could have put everyone else up on apple crates so Cotillard would appear more child sized as the real Piaf did. I mean opposite Asso and Cerdan, Piaf should look like a midget! Unfortunatley, I know so much about Piaf's life, that watching this biopic, I found myself keeping score on what Dahan, missed, re-interpreted, left out or invented. Just as I thought he had left out the death of her child, Marcelle, we see it in a flash back. This movie is worth seeing, however, autobigraphies such as the one written by Margaret Crosland and Piaf's own two autobiograpgies offer many more details and insight into the real Piaf phenomenon.
And there is more Piaf to come! After the screening, a young lady was handing out cards announcing a theatre show coming to New York this summer about the French chanteuse! Although, I am assuming there will be no lip syncing in this case! This will be the summer of Paris in New York! A summer of amour! Vive la France!