La vie en rose, 2007

This is a beautiful film, and Marion Cotillard's acting is outstanding; however, it is a jumbled mess. The film cuts back and forth between numerous points in time so much that it took me out of the story and significant portions of Edit Piaf's life are almost completely omitted, such as World War II, and some facts are ignored and/or tampered with, such as the chronology of her childhood.

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I stuck with the movie the entire way through. It was a back and forth movie, you'll have a hard time keeping up with what time is being depicted in Piaf's life. While I knew the movie was subtitled in English, I had hoped that everything in the movie was going to be subtitled. Unfortunately, all of the songs in the movie are not subtitled, and I would have liked to have known the English lyrics to them, as it would have increased my enjoyment. The singing IS very good, but unless you speak French, you will not know what is being sung. Besides that, this movie drags on for entirely too long, and there isn't much of a reward for the experience. The performance of Cotillard is excellent, but it is too bad that the beautiful shots and great acting is hampered by bad direction and an unnecessarily long runtime.

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