A harmony about merry melody

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2008)

This film is a brilliant picture about legendary model of music and sing not only in Europe but also around the world by her magic voice and honest comment upon her magic live with lyrics of songs in different subjects and cores between sadness and happiness to adapt with hearts in different situations that was translated exactly and excellently in different and varietal scenes upon the misery and sad story for Edith Piaf that she sang for love but she lost it , she sang for happiness but she did not gain it because of her dramatic events in her life upon her shock of dead of her lover , the badness of her mother , the selfish of her father and the death of her (X) daughter in 1935.
She called in Egypt (French OmKalthum)for the same level of their voices and their honest for reaching the real meaning for people during strong meanings in the lyrics of their songs and their faced the hardness during their way in the artist globe to in the summit of art still their death.
she called in America (French Judy Garland) upon their similar fates in famous history and misery end of both that they were dead because of drugs,Piaf died in 11th October 1963 and Garland died in 22nd June 1969. Both of them left marvels heritages between songs and movies to eternal in the pages of history and arts between (Somewhere over the rainbow - You made me love you - Smile - the trolley song)and (Padam Padam - La vie en rose - Mon Dieu - Hymne à L'Amour - La foul).
Marion Cotillard succeeded in her role as (Edith Piaf) by her body and spirit especially in the scene of (Marcel Cerdan) her love died in the accident of plane crush which made for her a turning point in her art and life that she depended on drugs to escape from her hard fate from her childhood until her death. The director used his cleverness by mixing between pink dream and black fact in the scene of Marcel Cardan ,s death and he turned Piaf and transformed this drama from her room into the stage by the song of (Hymne à L'Amour) in an epic and master scene of this film.
The end of this film is a successful end by mixing between her death and her last song (Je Ne Regrette Rien)as a summarize of her hole life from birth to death as declaration from her about her satisfy on herself obtained her sins.