A masterpiece from the beginning........

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2008)

All I want to say is that a lot of toil is there behind this movie that many of us have overlooked......The cinematography is I think the best thing one can get.....the shots are long and sometimes camera is so beautifully moved that you get the effect but you don't know what struck you....The scene when Papa leplese dies there's a ecstatic long shot where the camera follows Edith, to the dead body and comes out of the room with her......Again there is a shot where blind baby Edith accidentally enters Titine's room and then her grandma comes and takes her out, the movement of Camera is very nice in this scene....And this scene about which I am going to write is articulately built and shot...baby Edith is standing outside a doll shop and shutters are being brought down his father is calling for her from outside but the sound is feeble, its like she's inside the shop with the doll and slowly the shutters comes down completely and the screen is black for a few moments. Screenplay is non linear and in a way nice, though some find difficult to comprehend the purpose of this but it is good, actually the movie La Mome is being narrated by Edith and she is remembering the past experience, the screenplay is purely intensional and justified .....Direction is nice, it is based on the real life of Edith Piaf, so script is not original but of course it is good......Music and movie score is also fine but as the movie deals with a singer it is an quintessential feature. Now last but not the least the acting, Everybody has done a good job...naaa....great job. Everybody from Titine to Marcel.....Oh we have forgotten somebody ......yaaa...MARION COTILLARD........she has done a great piece of acting, she has shown every shade and every realm of life of Edith Piaf and that too with a razor fine quality, she looks like Edith Piaf more on the screen....It is supplemented by very good makeup...her eyes look like a bit too inside the socket showing that she is sick and all......There's dialog in the movie by Marion Cotillard "Edith Piaf can do whatever she pleases" I don't know about her but Marion Cotillard has done likewise..... A masterpiece all the way......