Article: Marion Cotillard: so how do you play an icon who surmounted trauma, heartache, and drug addiction to become one of France's greatest singers?(Interview)

When the biopic La Vie en Rose was shown at a film festival in New York City earlier this year, The New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden wrote: "Marion Cotillard's feral portrait of the French singer Edith Piaf as a captive wild animal hurling herself at the bars of her cage is the most astonishing immersion of one performer into the body and soul of another I've ever encountered in a film." Readers immediately asked themselves: Just who is this actress who recreates the life of a singer (1915-1963) whose songs--"La Vie en Rose," "Milord," "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"--are as quintessentially French as Brie and baguettes?

As it happens, Cotillard, 31, has turned ...

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