Watch This: 'Pretty Things'

107 minutes. Not rated.

Long before "La Vie en Rose," Marion Cotillard, then 25, starred in this strange 2001 film about a woman who slips into the life of her twin sister (also played by Cotillard). Her sister, a promiscuous, drug-abusing wannabe singer, somehow lands a recording contract, but she can't sing, so the twin does a concert in her place -- and on that very night, the drug-taking sister kills herself. The surviving twin makes a split-second decision: She will assume the dead sister's identity to maintain the burgeoning recording career. This is a terrific premise that gives Cotillard a lot to chew on.

-- San Francisco Chronicle