"Olivier Dahan's sprawling portrait of the life of Edith Piaf is the kind of grand, passionate historical drama that no one seems to be able to pull off any more. Dahan does so magnificently, thanks largely to a brilliant performance by Marion Cotillard [who] plays the legendary French icon from 20-year-old street singer and hard-living urchin to superstar concert-hall vocalist to frail icon, bent and palsied from a life of drink, drugs and high living without ever losing the spark of the sassy street kid who muscled her way into polite company...It's really less a biography than the sketch of a melodramatic life of triumphs and tragedies and a passionate woman who favored emotion and impulse over reason and restraint." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) "One of the best biopics I've seen." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times) More at edithpiafmovie.com 35mm Cinemascope
2007, color, 2 hours 20 minutes, France/UK/Czech Rebuplic