La Vie En Rose (directed by Olivier Dahan)
La Vie En Rose, despite some of its flaws, (one of them being about 20 minutes too long) has one obvious weapon in its favor: a striking, multifaceted performance by Marion Cotillard as legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf.
Roger Ebert, in his review of the film, said it was one of the best biopics he's seen. It's hard to argue--with so many of them floating around lately, it was easy to think that Rose could've gone along with the routine. Fortunately, there was nothing typical about Piaf's life, nor the manner in which Dahan tells her overwhelmingly sad story. Dahan jumps around a lot chronologically, but he also dives straight into Piaf's tortured mess of a soul, and examines the nature of what it means to be an artist as opposed to just being a performer. Amazingly, Rose gets every little detail right.
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