Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 06/08/2007(USA
Release Date: 11/13/2007
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 141 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs), Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video
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.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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