La Vie En Rose

Did you think Amy Winehouse had the market on crazy? In La Vie En Rose, Marion Cotillard gives us a performance of a lifetime playing Parisian singer Edith Piaf. So good that she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2007. So good that they should give her another one just for being so damn good.





There isn't much to be happy about in this film. If you are looking for a movie to make you smile or feel good you need to look elsewhere. This is a true tragedy. In fact if it wasn't for her music, I don't imagine that she would have lived much past her twentieth birthday.

Piaf was one of the most amazing singers of her time. And her tragic life added to the feeling in her music, thus making it so powerful for everyone who listened. Check it out.

La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf


Even if you aren't too interested in foreign films (French film subtitled in English) or a story of this nature, you should check it out just to see the amazing transformation and acting by Marion Cotillard.

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I haven't seen such a transformation since Charlize Theron in Monster.

This is an amazing biopic that everyone should see once.

4 stars for the movie, 5 stars for the performance.

Hancock

Hancock is just another example of what can go wrong in Hollywood.

This is a new installment to the super hero genre that went totally awry. I have no idea what Peter Berg was trying to do with this material. He was all over the map. In 95 minutes, the movie was dark, light, humorous, ridiculous, sappy, and sad.




If he would have kept the material dark, much like it began, he would have had a winner. Will Smith's wise cracking was very funny, and the sexual scene was hilarious. But every time they went in different directions I was left shaking my head.

It's a shame because there were strong performances all around. Will Smith kept this from being a complete waste of time. He has become one of the better actors of his generation. He has proven that he can pull off just about anything. Jason Bateman was very believable but they just didn't develop his character enough for anyone to care about him.

Charlize Theron was so under utilized that it was a sin. This material gave her very little to work with. Her main part developed so late in the game that it couldn't help save the movie. If they would have let her appear in her "business" attire a bit longer they could have at least helped the males of the audience survive.









































She is ridiculously hot. Let's hope she never goes back to Monster. Nobody needs to see this:















I went smaller on the pic to save your souls.

For all you A/V junkies out there, the Blu-Ray slightly above average. The picture was clean but they could have done more with the special effects. The Dolby TrueHD was also just slightly above average. Man, they could have done SO much more with this.

2 out of 5 stars.