La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)
by Olivier Dahan
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Actor: Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marion Cotillard, Pascal Greggory, Sylvie TestudDirector: Olivier Dahan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Olivier Dahan
Producer: Alain Goldman
Producer: Axel Decis
Producer: Catherine Morisse
Producer: Marc Jenny
Producer: Marc Vad?
Writer: Isabelle Sobelman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)
DVD Review: La Vie en Rose DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful movie. The movie has such an impact that it stays with you for days. Inspiring, sad and funny. I treasure this one. DVD Review: Great singing, not so interesting a character
Summary: 3 Stars
The actress' performance was great, Depardieu stole all his scenes as usual, but I really did not find Piaf's life all that interesting or her very sympathetique in the end. These biopics are getting as tedious as reality TV.DVD Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Cotillard is fantastic and the makeup is exceptional (so the Oscars were deserved I guess) but the rest of La Vie En Rose leaves a lot to be desired: it's told out of sequence for no reason I can think of aside from a need to be different, which just ends up confusing the audience, secondary characters are discarded as the movie sees fit, and it clocks in at a looooong 149 minutes.
DVD Review: Interesting, great performance, but choppy
Summary: 3 Stars
The actress gives an amazing performance, but I am not so sure Piaf was likable as a person and the way she comes off as abrasive and arrogant and manic made me not warm to her at all.
Some reviews have said parts are left out of the film, in the American version, and I can well believe it.
I am also not sure why they kept inserting bit of her as an old woman with red hair who comes off as something as cadaverous as Elizabeth I in her old age.
Dark, and memorable only for its valiant effort.
DVD Review: LA VIE EN ROSE starring Marion Cotillard
Summary: 5 Stars
Before seeing this film I knew very little about the life of Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard's performance makes you feel that you are actually seeing the real Piaf - and all the turmoil of her life. It is one one the most moving bio-pics I've seen in years. Marion Cotillard gives the performance of a lifetime in the role of a lifetime.
She is supported beautifully by the other cast members, and by the wonderful art direction and makeup.
If the picture were in English, she probably would have won the Best Actress award instead of the Best Actress in a Foreign Film award - but then, the picture would not have been as effective.
If I were to nit-pick, I would wish that films today, especially those that are set completely in the past,
would tell a more linear story. I'm not sure why filmakers feel compelled to jump back and forth in time.
Wasn't it the Caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland" who suggested, "Start at the beginning, and when you come to the end - stop!"
But I agree with Jeffrey Lyons when he calls Cotillard's portrayal of Piaf, "One of the great performances of this or any year!"
Description of La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)
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 ??" her voice. Piaf??Ts tragic life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love, with no regrets.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
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