Wow, Edith Piaf’s childhood was really awful. Not sure, at least from the way the movie played it, whether she ever really got over it. Thought the movie was very well done, some really impressive performances. Wondered about the point of the timeline jumps. Is the end meant to be more profound since we keep returning to it over and over? In some movies (Memento, Run Lola Run, etc) the nonlinear progression of time has a reason. Here, it didn’t seem to add anything to the story.

Well worth seeing. A long movie that didn’t FEEL long at all – unlike other recent viewings, two and a half hours passed by without notice.