La Vie En Rose

From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf’s life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith’s magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period-Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others-made her a star all around the world., French singer Edith Piaf came from poor beginnings and grew up in a brothel. But, despite tragedy and personal problems, she became a legendary icon., Award-winning biopic of French chanteuse and diva Edith Piaf, whose tumultuous life started in abject poverty on the streets of Paris and ended amongst the trials and tragedy of stardom., Marion Cotillard enthrallingly embodies French chanteuse Edith “The Little Sparrow” Piaf in this absorbing and heartwrenching biopic. Piaf’s whirlwind life is chronicled, from her Dickensian upbringing to her cabaret success and her drug-addled downfall. Gérard Depardieu costars as the impresario who discovers her warbling on a street corner. Directed by Olivier Dahan, who co-wrote the script with Isabelle Sobelman. Emmanuelle Seigner, Sylvie Testud, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pascal Greggory, Marc Barbe., Marion Cotillard’s performance as French chanteuse Edith Piaf sparks this biopic, which follows Piaf from her Dickensian upbringing to her cabaret success and her drug-addled downfall., Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner — as a complete unknown — by cabaret proprietor Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu). The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf’s life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan’s (Jean-Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid-’40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the ’50s; Piaf’s abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.