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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359441226
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 1050
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Description:
Picturehouse and HBO Films present a critically-acclaimed biopic about the legendary international singing icon Edith Piaf, whose voice and talent captivated the world. Starring award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in an astonishing performance, the film is a portrait of a remarkable artist born into poverty who survived using the only gift she had â€' her voice. Piaf’s tragic life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love, with no regrets.
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Edith Piaf is the subject of La Vie en Rose, director Olivier Dahan's powerful if emotionally redundant biographical film about the iconic French superstar whose life, as depicted here, seems to have been a numbing succession of tragedies interrupted on occasion by artistic triumph. Dahan's portrait begins with Piaf's stay in a brothel as a young girl. Left to the care of her grandmother (who runs the place) after her father pulls her away from a narcissistic mother, Piaf undergoes significant health problems and grows up to sing on the street in lieu of outright prostitution. The film pulses along with the usual biopic rhythms, with pivotal moments in the life of Piaf (played as an adult by Marion Cotillard) turning up regularly only to be smacked aside by the unseen hand of perpetual misfortune. There's the impresario (Gerard Depardieu) who recognizes Piaf's great but raw talent only to have a run-in with the criminal element around her. There's the heavyweight fighter (Marcel Cerdan) who becomes the love of Piaf's life but can't be with her. Drug addiction, random car accidents, tax problems, you name it, it's all here, topped by an unnerving revelation that pops up in La Vie en Rose's final moments. After awhile, with such a concentration of bad news squeezed into 140 minutes, one begins to wish Dahan had taken a more expansive approach to Piaf's life and times. But the film is never less than interesting, and the lead performance by Cotillard is often astonishing. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Outstanding Performance by Marion Cotillard!!! Fantastic!!
La vie en Rose shows a summary of the Edith Piaf's Life. Her struggle against all the circumstances she had to live.
The Marion Cotillard performance deserves the best comments.
I recommend this movie.
Rating:  - Read All the one & two star reviews ...
You'll find the repeated complaint that this American release was cut and re-edited, and suffered as a result. I tend to believe those complaints, though I've only seen the American version. Again and again I had the feeling that something vital had been cut in order to produce a trendy hopscotch of life-moments. It might be taken, if the viewer so chooses, as the jumbled memories of the dying woman. Words are spoken, in fact, from the death bed, to that effect; Edith declares that she remembers ... Read More
Rating: - piaf protrayed to perfection
The incredible performance ofmarion cotillard as Edith Piaf is incredible.
The whole cast is fantastic and the movie catches each time period
accurately and expertly.The only downside is that this movie jumps
back and forth and in between parts of the troubled edith piafs life.
It makes it confusing even though you still can understand what is happening if you follow the movie closely.The movie is in French with
english subtitles but that shouldn't detour anyone ... Read More
Rating:  - So Good, I Watched It Twice
I'm quickly becoming a lover of French cinema and I really enjoyed films such as 1992's "Indochine" and 2002's Oscar darling "Amelie"."La Môme" ("La Vie En Rose" its US title) is another proud example of my hankering to hear a romantic language spoken amidst spectacular drama and the promised prize of a stupendous performance from Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard delivers - her role as the title character is one of the most affecting and heartbreaking I've seen in a long while.
The ... Read More
Rating: - McCain dazzlement
My wife and I like the singing of Edith Piaf. When the DVD of a movie about Ms. Piaf came available, we bought it.
As we watched the performance, we sat in our chairs with our mouth agape. The acting is so superb as to whisk you back to Paris of the '30's with a young woman sining in the streets and dazzling her audiences.
Marion Cotillard won an Academy Award for this part and I know why. She is more than spectacular.
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