The "Little Sparrow" soars and shows us how
Marion Cotillard, whoever the real she is, died and reincarnated as Piaf, seamlessly, utterly, flawlessly. Piaf's life, from the underbelly of Paris some 90 years ago to the pinnacle of celebrity in Europe and the Americas, had all the dramatic highs and lows of the most retellable tales ? squalor/cosmoplitan high life, poverty/security, blindness/sight, abandonment/companionship, adoption/rejection, escape/recidivism, addiction/recovery, anonymity/discovery, success/failure, hope/despair, delivery/burial, aspiration/resignation, getting/losing
and through it all, friendship, sex, love, and belonging ? her motive and her goal was love. Cotillard brought back the person behind the legend and gave us all the chance to see the horror of her life through the same rose-colored glass as she, so that at the end of the battle, we too can cry out with absolute confidence, "No, I have no regrets, none at all." ?rpcastle