The film, set in France and Prague, traces the tragedies and joys of one of the legends of French song and international Edith Piaf . Born in the Paris suburbs, the star became famous from a young age. Her voice, characterized by many shades, he was able to go from bitter to sweet tones. Many of the misfortunes and negative events: accidents, coma, liver surgery, delirium tremens and a suicide attempt. The film of Dahan reconstruct one of his last public appearances in which it appears small and curved, with his hands deformed by arthritis and with thinning hair. Only one thing had remained unchanged and beautiful: her voice. not! Rien de rien
not! Je ne regrette rien ....
qu'on m'a fait Ni Le Bien, Le Mal ni
m'est tout ça bien égal!
We start from the end, with the profile of a small little woman, an elderly woman ahead of time (Piaf died at age 48, but looked 70), the mauve-blue eyes a bit 'projections and full of light, sparse hair, little body bent and deformed by arthritis, hands in the air and dancing a minute profile collapses on stage in New York, and back to the beginning of everything, a childhood that seems out of the worst melodrama, with a street singer mother, his father a circus performer who relies on the grandmother, the childhood spent among the girls in the brothel she manages.
Edith goes blind in poor health to regain it after a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Therese of Lisieux, winning only ten years his first applause singing the Marseillaise in the middle of a road.
A life of misery, tragedy, success and excess narrated very well by Dahan, who can move through a sincere and heartfelt storytelling, and to keep alive the attention due to constant time shifts that are destroying the history ably linear events in order to photograph the best mood and personality of a great artist and his life always suspended between happiness and self-destruction, excess and supreme will.
Signs of a life lived intensely and marked by events.
Edith Giovanna Gassion becomes môme, then Louis Leplée (Depardieu), the renamed Piaf, the Parisian sparrow nell'argot. Despite the appearance, his voice is powerful, goes straight to the soul, his songs are momentous, the total success. A woman
selfish, tyrannical, but also extremely generous, an 'icon of music, a iron will of mind, a tumult of passions, delusions, obsessions, emotions are mixed and exploded inside her. Meanwhile
continues slalom between the ages, childhood is mixed with an apparent age consumed alcohol, morphine, pain, we are witnessing the birth of some legendary songs ( La foule, Je ne regrette rien ) immense and tragic love for the boxer Marcel Cerdan, who is also a fate that heavy.
plan and the long sequence where Edith is under the illusion that it is next thrilling, a real blow to the heart. A sequence that does not forget and takes the soul. And then
drugs, America, the Olympia, the most secret pain.
Marion Cotillard remove its beauty, one that had toppled the cold broker Russel Crowe in A Good Year and had peeped in Big Fish (was Josephine, girlfriend of Billy Crudrup, son of the elderly Finney), undergoes grueling sessions and make-up, but never ridiculous, older, younger, in playback singing, she is confronted with the real Piaf, La Mome turns without falling into kitsch or pathetic, when it is above the natural lines, equally strong in the sequences discharged without ever falling into 'the grotesque imitation or worse.
The film stands on its narrow shoulders and curves of a woman bent by grief and pain of life that give luster and energy to what could become, in two hours and twenty in length, the usual classical cinepolpettone.
Belle also appeared in the role of Emmanuelle Seigner Titine , a prostitute with a heart of gold s'affeziona morbidly for her. And Caroline
Sihol wearing boldly on the role of Marlene Dietrich , to stage a brief but historic and exciting meeting between the two items most symbolic of war. Applause.
The result is a robust and often moving melodrama.
'Non, je ne regrette rien', ideal artistic testament of Piaf, with its beautiful text (suitably subtitled distributor Italian) contains the meaning of a lifetime.
No, no nothing.
No, I do not regret anything.
Nor the good that I have received neither the evil ...
me it's all right anyway.
No, no nothing, I do not regret anything
because my life
because my joys
begin today with you ...
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