Nomination: Academy Award Best Actress and Best Foreign Picture of 2007

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2007)

This is one of the great bio-pic and deserves this recognition. The music is timed perfectly and if you know Piaf's music you know what's coming the last 30 minutes of the film. Cleary Dahan holds of on one of Piaf's greatest, most well know, and well loved songs until the very end.
Sure the alternating scenes at times get a little confusing; however, they fit well within Piaf's life.
What can be said about Cotillard? This must rank as one of the all-time finest performances of any actor. Cotillard so throughly imbues the performance that there is not doubt one is seeing Edith Piaf in real life. I've not seen a finer cinematic performance from any actor.
What a great script, too.