La Môme tells the life story of legendary French songstress Edith Piaf, how her youth influenced her reckless adulthood and how it all led to her place as one of France's most enduring symbols.
She was not an ordinary singer. She lived her life at a fever pitch, driven by demons from her horrific childhood, and cruel twists of fate that together drove her to an early grave.
No ordinary bio-pic would do to capture the essence of what Piaf was. One of the film's saving graces is the music of Piaf used whole or re-recorded to mold and propel the story.
The film stars Marion Cotillard who, as the 'Little Sparrow', delivers a vigorous performance. She plays Piaf from vibrant adolescence to her frail, but no less vivid, forties. The impudence, the pride, the wariness are all there. When she puts her hands on her hips and begins to lip-synch to Piaf's voice, she is channeling more than the gestures, she is living the entire life of the singer.
Olivier Dahan knows here his redemption by revealing the creative strength of a visionary which we did not suspect him. By his complex editing and in great delicacy, and his incredible sense of stage, he makes us attend the revival of a popular cinema which we considered lost.
Through a fate more incredible than a novel, discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman. Strict, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to her art until the sacrifice, Edith Piaf is the most immortal of singers.
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