Sacré Bleu!

Rating: 2/10 (7 January 2008)

Observations from watching this yesterday:
1) This Édith Piaf is a cold, heartless bitch, unworthy of any sympathy! She lost me when she told her begging mother to "Eat sh*t!" Yeah, Mom abandoned her, but that was plain vicious. So when Pop (looking like Fidel Castro) lets his baby get smacked and hauled off by Asso, I cheered!
2) Little Édith befriended by two whores in Grandma's brothel, only to have her torn away from them by Pop in a reenactment of the Elián González raid? Not even Spielberg is that shameless!
3) Édith as an adult looks like a crack whore, then Madonna in "Like a Prayer", then a drag queen doing Judy Garland as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
4) Édith is never shown in a recording studio, yet a montage shows her records being pressed. That's a real neat trick!
5) Édith's movie career is ignored.
6) Édith's association with Communists and the fact that she performed for the Nazis are also ignored.
7) Édith complains that the Americans don't "get her", yet they give her a standing ovation. Guess the Frenchies who give her standing ovations here didn't "get her", either.
8) Édith being in awe of fellow self-absorbed chanteuse Marlene Dietrich? Please!
9) Cerdan beat Tony Zale to win the Middleweight Title on 21 September 1948; the caption that tells us Édith is in New York says "1947".
10) The fight has Cerdan towering over Zale. In fact, they were the same height (5'8") and roughly the same weight (154).
11) Édith's wailing and wailing AND WAILING over Cerdan has to be the campiest moment since the "no more wire hangers, ever!" bit in Mommie Dearest.
12) "Non, je ne regrette rien" was written in 1956, yet Édith didn't know of it until it was played for her 4 years later? Yeah, right!