If there's an justice in this Winter's Oscar picks, Marion Cotillard should walk away with a Best Actress trophy for her phenomenal, eerily authentic performance as legendary French singer Edith Piaf. Cotillard inhabits Piaf from her time as a teenager singing for spare change on the street all the way through to her death in her 40s as a renowned vocalist. Her peformance is miraculously captivating, so real in each phase of Piaf's life that it took me nearly half the film to realize that the same actress was portraying the young Piaf and the older Piaf. It's as true and stirring a piece of dramatic acting as anything in any film this year.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
DVD of the Week: La Vie en Rose
If there's an justice in this Winter's Oscar picks, Marion Cotillard should walk away with a Best Actress trophy for her phenomenal, eerily authentic performance as legendary French singer Edith Piaf. Cotillard inhabits Piaf from her time as a teenager singing for spare change on the street all the way through to her death in her 40s as a renowned vocalist. Her peformance is miraculously captivating, so real in each phase of Piaf's life that it took me nearly half the film to realize that the same actress was portraying the young Piaf and the older Piaf. It's as true and stirring a piece of dramatic acting as anything in any film this year.
