La Vie En Rose PG-13
The Extraordinary Story of Edith Piaf
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 13, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Hbo Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marion Cotillard | |
Performer: | Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Clotilde Courau, Jean Paul Rouve, Marc Barbé & Catherine Allégret | |
Directed by | Oliver Dahan | |
Screenwriting by | Olivier Dahan | |
Composition by | Christopher Gunning | |
Produced by | Alain Goldman | |
Director of Photography: | Tetsuo Nagata |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2007 -
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard
Academy Awards 2007 -
Best Makeup: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
Quite simply, is the best movie I have seen all year.
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ReelzChannel.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In La Vie En Rose,we get to witness a rare and beautiful thing - an artist baring her soul and creating a performance for the ages.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
3.5 stars out of 5 -- Marion Cotillard, lip-syncing Piaf's songs and digging into her soul with gale-force urgency, gives a performance for the ages.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/4 --
This isn't the first time Piaf's life has been brought to the screen and it probably won't be the last, but Cotillard makes this particular version stand apart.
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ReelViews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This kind of heightened drama might not work in most movies, but it suits its larger-than-life subject: Dahan's La Vie is the movie equivalent of a torch song.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 3.0/5 --
In La Vie en Rose, Marion Cotillard has the role of a lifetime. And she relishes it.
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Driven by some of the greatest popular music ever recorded, this wildly overripe biopic is a true experience. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
According to Marlene Dietrich, chanteuse Edith Piaf's voice was "the soul of Paris." This French drama explores the often troubled life of the singer as her fame took her from the City of Lights to America to the South of France. Abandoned by her mother, Piaf grew up in her grandmother's brothel and her father's circus, which is hardly the fun one might imagine. While singing on the streets of Paris as a teen, Piaf (played as an adult by Marion Cotillard, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT) is discovered by club owner Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu), and this chance encounter changes the woman's life. Her powerful voice takes her all over the globe, but it can't guard her from the pain and suffering she can't avoid.
As Piaf, Cotillard is mesmerizing. She fully inhabits the singer's ivory skin, crafting a character that never descends into caricature or camp. She lip syncs to Piaf's legendary voice, but the performance is seamless. Like WALK THE LINE and RAY, this biopic creates a fascinating picture of an artist whose songs only begin to reflect the singer's painful life. But director-writer Olivier Dahan (LA VIE PROMISE) doesn't take the traditional biopic route with LA VIE EN ROSE. Instead, the film jumps between various moments in the singer's life, with little concern for linear narrative. Cotillard is just as adept at playing the teenage Piaf as she is the songbird on her deathbed at the age of 47, and it's her amazing performance that makes LA VIE EN ROSE worth seeing.
As Piaf, Cotillard is mesmerizing. She fully inhabits the singer's ivory skin, crafting a character that never descends into caricature or camp. She lip syncs to Piaf's legendary voice, but the performance is seamless. Like WALK THE LINE and RAY, this biopic creates a fascinating picture of an artist whose songs only begin to reflect the singer's painful life. But director-writer Olivier Dahan (LA VIE PROMISE) doesn't take the traditional biopic route with LA VIE EN ROSE. Instead, the film jumps between various moments in the singer's life, with little concern for linear narrative. Cotillard is just as adept at playing the teenage Piaf as she is the songbird on her deathbed at the age of 47, and it's her amazing performance that makes LA VIE EN ROSE worth seeing.
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