So, I have officially had my restricted license for FIVE YEARS!!!!
About time I got my full, huh?
I have no doubt that I can easily pass, but oh, the money. Why is everything so damned expensive? Sat down in front of my online banking page this morning, and voooosh! my pay is nearly completely gone.
How I hate money. But I am determined to start saving up some of my pay each week so that I can make it to Caryvention 9 next year.
The Warbrides went on 'A Cruise To Remember' around Mexico last weekend am I am so gutted to have missed out. I did win an awesome Caryvention tshirt in the trivia comp though! Thanks so much again, Jan!
(You see, there is a whole group of women scattered around the world as obsessed - and some even more so - with Cary as I am)!
Anyway, I saw La Vie En Rose last night.
Rialtonians will know how enraged I was when I saw we weren't getting it with the film festival, so have been waiting not so patiently for it to come out on general release, and I certainly was not disappointed.
I did discover though, that I will never be a truly great actress.
Marion Cotillard is a GENIUS!
I have been trying to think of an actor from any era of film history who has given such an intense, passionate and truly moving and believable performance as Cotillard's Piaf...and I can't.
This woman, I will quite plainly state, is the greatest film actress to ever appear on celluloid.
I could never give a performance even as half as good as hers.
If she's not up for an Oscar, something is terribly wrong. The statue should already be in her hands.
It's one thing for an actor to create a character and give an amazing performance, but to take a well known figure from history, of whom there are many video clips and images around, and nail the person to a tee, is nothing short of genius.
She played Edith to perfection from her early twenties right through to her death in her 40s, where she looked more like a 90 year old thanks to the toll various addictions and heartbreaks had on her.
By now, you will have guessed that I absolutely loved this film and can't rave about it enough, so I won't.
Just go and see it! And then borrow my Edith Piaf cds!
'La Vie En Rose' is in my list of top five favourite songs ever - the French version, not so much the prettied up English lyrics - and have decided that when I kick the bucket I want 'Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien' played at my funeral, as well as Frank Sinatra's 'My Way'.
God, I'm old! lol
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