Customer Reviews
Incroyable! - By: M. Roberts, 23 Apr 2008 
Marion Cotillard is quite simply incredible in this film. If you can put up with the subtitles then you must see it. It's not a happy film, it won't leave you full of joy, but it is fascinating & beautifully acted.
I cried like a baby at the end & am not ashamed to admit it!
So disappointing - By: Janet Landles, 16 Apr 2008 
I love Edith Piaf's singing & reallly looked forward to this film.
The acting was, at times, brilliant. However there were too many scenes of Marion Cotillard with the fixed grin & empty eyes of a complete idiot.
The story was fragmented, it didnt come together for me at alll. I was left wondering who Edith Piaf reallly was. The characters lacked depth.
It was also very slow & I became very annoyed with this screaming, self-indulgent, spoiled junky.
A True Tribute to an Amazing Woman - By: S. Hacking, 24 Mar 2008 My view echoes the vast majority of reviews on here; Cotillard is a revelation; what an achievement in acting; she reallly did deserve the oscar for best actress & then some, in fact she may have raised the standard! I could not help thinking "I wonder what Edith Piaf would think of this" - I think she would have been very impressed (in her own way of course).
I have not stopped talking about this since I saw it; I bought it for a present for my mother for Christmas last year, after hearing rumours how brilliant it was, & only saw it myself the other day; in the meantime of course, Marion Cotillard has won the oscar.
If you think you cannot watch a subtitled film, & this is the only thing that is putting you off, I urge you to take a chance & watch, as the film truly is a work of art in every sense.
A Film Biography - By: B. W. Jenner, 24 Mar 2008 I did watch this film from beginning to end, but I can't say it overwhelmed me. I kept expecting it to close, & then it went on to another bit of the story, & another, & another. I find Piaf a bit of a cliche, Je ne regrette rien is the sort of thing rather dim people pick for their Desert Island Disc.
It was a harrowing story, but apart from telling us the outlines of a hard life, I'm not sure it reallly told me anything profound or universal.
Too real. - By: Pantsonfire, 20 Mar 2008 Somehow I found the amazingly brilliant performance by Marion Cotillard, coupled with the fabulous costume & whole atmosphere captured by this excellent film, too difficult to 'enjoy'. The whole thing was so very tragic & so very real that it is, without doubt, the most depressing film I have ever seen. If you want brilliance - this is it. If you are at alll at a low ebb - this isn't!
