The film segues breezily between various episodes from piafs life. With georges du fresne, michele laroque, jeanphilippe ecoffey, helene vincent. This apparent randomness creates confusion and loses the audience. From the streets of the cutthroat belleville district of paris to the dazzling limelight of new yorks glamorous concert halls, edith piafs life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live. The film was cowritten and directed by olivier dahan, and stars marion cotillard as piaf. Edith piafs voice is beautiful, her story is tragic. The movie is long but addicting and i couldnt stop wathcing. Oliver dahan may choose to present piafs life in a fragmented fashion, but everything is ultimately connected and, except for the childhood scenes, there is a single actress.
Of course they couldnt cover every aspect of her legendary life but forgetting to mention that edith was the one who discovered yves montand or that she played a major part of the french resistance was inexcusable. It has subtitled swearing, drug use and some sexual references. As the introductory sentence makes clear, this is just the american name for the movie. But seriously, marion cotillards performance is nothing short of spectacular, even if her performance borders on caricature. With marion cotillard, sylvie testud, pascal greggory, emmanuelle seigner. Marion coutillard performs non, je ne regrette rien as edith piaf.
Later, she will give a bittersweet, valedictory magazine interview on a california beach, and she looks a perky decade younger. A farfromrosy life story makes this lengthy biopic entertaining, but despite a strong lead. Im really only explaining this like this because im splitting this into different parts. Alain berliners colorful and poetic ma vie en rose not only bends the lines between reality and fantasy, but also those notions of gender roles as it tells the story of a sevenyearold boy who. Actress and singer zsa zsa padilla, who portrays the villanious red dragon, sings this song at a charity ball she organized in the philippine political suspensedrama wildflower. Most of the songs in the film are accompanied by subtitles. In other words, the story cuts in the film were done mostly or entirely for emotional reasons of the main character. Jun 02, 2011 the epic movie which unfolds the life story of great chanson singer edith piaf. Ludovic is an innocent sevenyearold child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists hes a girl. It is not easy to make a film or play the lead role of what amounts to a french saint.
Apr 11, 2019 explores the often troubled life of edith piaf. While singing on the streets of paris as a teen, piaf is discovered by club owner louis leplee, and this chance encounter changes her life. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. From what ive read of piafs life, i think the movie did justice to her story. Its an anthology of scenes in search of a movie, and it really is very long. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. Apr 07, 2008 marion coutillard performs non, je ne regrette rien as edith piaf. From the mean streets of the belleville district of paris to the dazzling limelight of new yorks most famous concert halls, piafs life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live.
The title, which translates loosely as life through rose colored glasses, is from one of piafs most famous songs, which she wrote herself. Despite her success, piafs life was filled with tragedy. As good as i think whats love got to do with it was, i also kind of got the impression it was tina turner grinding her axe of grudges against ike. Marion cotillard gives an oscarrwinning performance in this film about the tragic life of the famed french singer. Ma vie en rose is the first film by alain berliner, a belgian, who worked from the original screenplay of chris vander stappen, herself a tomboy who got a lot of heat as a child.
I saw the movie yesterday, went home, and listened to ediths albums for hours, and they meant so much. But behind edith piafs tiny stature was a largerthanlife voice that captivated a generation. I myself remember edith piaf and enjoyed this part fictional version of her life story. French for life in pink is the signature song of popular french singer edith piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947. Marion cotillard says sex scenes with brad pitt were not awkward duration. Just like in english when we say lets netflix and chill we dont mean were going to watch netflix in a freezer. There are clearly important personal issues at work beneath the surface, especially for vander stappen, who identifies herself as a lesbian, but they skate above them. Best actress the beautiful marion cotillard and best makeup. The epic movie which unfolds the life story of great chanson singer edith piaf. Creative and well paced as well as beautifully directed. A profile of the french street singer who became a renowned vocalist. The film was cowritten and directed by olivier dahan, and. Both versions of the movie have very good picture and sound quality.
Marion cotillard portrays piaf, the superstar once raised as a. Marion cotillard gives an oscarrwinning performance in this film. The late show with stephen colbert recommended for you. After seeing it, i realized what a good life i have. My life in pink ma vie en rose 1997 rotten tomatoes.
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