Transcendent

From The Roanoke Times:
"Marion Cotillard plays the troubled singer from her teens to her death in a performance that can only be called transcendent. Cotillard grasps the insecurity that plagued Piaf from her loveless childhood and the all-consuming egotism that came with her concert and recording success. She might be a shambles offstage, but asserting herself in the spotlight, her raspy voice soaring to the rafters, she transmutes her pain into glory." More...