This movie is about the legendary Edith Piaf, the French singer. What brought me to this movie was the movie poster, and I'd looked up Marion Cotillard (Big Fish, Inception) on IMDB.
Edith's life is a rocky road, starting with being placed in her father's mother's care at her brothel. A whore there likes to consider herself Edith's mother. Later on, her father returns and takes Edith to work in the circus with him. When he finally leaves the circus he works as a street performer. When asked if Edith has a role in his act he forces her to sing. This causes her to become a singer on the street once she's older. Edith gets seen by many people getting her to sing on stage. Edith falls in love with a boxer named Marcel, and when she rushes him to meet her he dies in a plane crash which starts Edith's drug addiction. She lives a crazy loud life until her end.
The movie can be a little confusing at first. I didn't know anything about it going into it, and later on I understood more just through the movie alone. The movie does these near insane transitions. It starts with Edith as a young girl, than goes on to her as an old woman, then to her as a younger woman, and changes throughout the movie. The movie is completely in French, aside from some lines that are later said in French. However, be aware, this movie is two hours and 15 minutes long. About halfway through you'll probably start to wonder if it's over. Well, it's not. That's the only thing I really didn't love about this movie was how long it was.
This movie IS on Netflix for renting or for instant watch, this is where I watched it.
Not all of the songs are translated into English.
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