Marion Cotillard

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2011)

Existence. As puzzle. Dark pieces. Gray childhood. Music as Jacob ladder. Pendulum from dizzy heights to abysses. A honest story about success and its harsh price. Lights, public and horrible night. Death as circle and love as pray. Result - a movie, special movie behind cages or traps. Sketch of a brilliant woman and her wars. Nothing forced. Nothing artificial, pink or fake. And the merit is, in great measure, work of Marion Cotillard. Which is in perfect place, with precise art of balance of feelings, gestures and expression. A impressive Piaf. Bricks for role - the truth in pure form. The film may be extraordinary, spectacular, sad, original or masterpiece. But important is only the crumb after its end. Not presentation of a life, not homage of a great artist. Only clay of a house. And the traces of a silhouette. Natural, young Cotillard is Piaf.