
~Marion Cotillard definitely deserves her Oscar nod, as I found her believable playing all different ages as Edith Piaf. As Piaf was quite eccentric, this must have been a difficult role to play. She became Edith Piaf.
~The music in the film is fabulous. Even those who are not familiar with French music will recognize bits and pieces along the way.
~The movie focuses on the theme of loss throughout Piaf's life. I'm not sure why, but even though I came away overwhelming sad, I never cried or even teared up during the film. Her life was terribly sad, and yet she was not a sad person so you don't necessarily feel sorry for her.
~I think the movie made Edith Piaf seem much weirder than she really was. I came away from the movie almost weary because she seemed to be crazy and erratic for most of her life, but when I looked up some information on her it seemed that, while she did live on the wild side, she wasn't as insane, alcoholic, and drug-addicted as she seemed in the movie.
~The movie jumped around in time a lot. While that can be confusing, I generally enjoy it in a movie because it makes me think more. This was out of control, though. There were so many scenes that were never revisited and I kept waiting for the story to pick them up or tie them in. I get that they were there just to give an idea of the kind of life she was living, but I came away with a frustrated and vague idea of the chronology of her life.
~Finally, I don't mind foreign language films at all, but an entire movie in French is just annoying.
~Oh, and there is a TON of screaming in the movie (you know those crazy, passionate French people). It overwhelmed me a bit.
I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either.
Guest blogger AK's other writings can be found at Pulitzer Palavar.
7 comments:
I agree with AK's review.
I would've liked for them to translate the French songs. They sounded beautiful, but I had no idea what they were about.
At first I did think translations of the songs would've been helpful, but I kinda felt it didn't matter since you could tell by the expressions in Piaf's voice what she was singing about. I liked this movie a lot.
ak, thanks for posting!
I've been interested in seeing this movie, especially since Marion Cotillard has been nominated for an Oscar and has won some other awards for her performance. But I too am not a huge French film fan... Thanks for the review AK! :-)
I can't believe your profile pic has half of your spouse's face cropped out. Tsk, Tsk :)
At least half of my spouse's face made it in the picture... ;)
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