France/United Kingdom/Czechia
directed by: Olivier Dahan
written by: Isabelle Sobelman, Olivier Dahan
starring: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Emmanuelle Seigner
commented on 24th January, 2022
I prefer when biopics examine the art rather than the artist's lives themselves. (Which sadly is not the case here.) At least we got the comparison between the composer demonstrating it and the interpret than taking it and making it her own.
After some deliberation I am ready to say that the time jumps, which I've seen people to criticize as disrupting their viewing experience, made the film better in my eyes. It was a way to make an "ordinary" (predictable? I swear to god all life stories of great singers are the same) story stuctured in some artistic way and give it a glamorous aura of mystery.
When the ending made me cry, it was because of the music itself shaping it and filling it, not because of the life that preceded it.
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