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
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: 141 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: "The Best Movie of it's type in a generation"
Summary: 5 Stars
Marion Cotillard is magnificent in this wonderful depiction of Edith Piaf. This movie will have you mesmerized and enchanted. "Bravo"
If this story doesn't move you, nothing will. It is impossible to be indifferent to this film. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll walk away thanking Edith Piaf for sharing her life story and her talent with the world.
DVD Review: Shameless scenery-chewing destroys portrait of Piaf
Summary: 1 Stars
This biopic of chanteuse and French national hero Edith Piaf begins well, charting an impoverished childhood of temporary blindness and discolation, with a quiet dignity brought by the actress that portrays Edith as a child.
Then flash-forward to Piaf's adulthood, and things quickly go downhill.
Except for a moving scene where Marie Cotillard as Piaf sings La Marseillese to the impoverished passerbys of Paris, the bulk of her performance turns into a non-stop, self-pitying, raving trainwreck that makes Jack Nicholson's tirades look like a study in subtlety and reserve. Every personal transaction is so full of desperate mugging and neediness, that by the time an actual tragedy strikes Piaf with the death of a loved one, your emotional capital is already so exhausted by Cotillard's shameless straining that you could really care less how she feels -just make her stop screaming, "MARCEL!! MARCEL!!!" It's the equivalent of a performance grabbing your arm and twisting it behind your back until you cry, "PLEASE, I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST STOP!!!"
There is little biographical evidence to suggest the actal Piaf was as disastrous a personality as portrayed here; it just smells of an actress seeing her big shot at the Oscar with over-the-top histrionics the Academy loves, and of course being rewarded for such a travesty. If you like Piaf's music, just get a greatest hits CD, and skip this exploitative mess at all costs.
DVD Review: Memorable
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a beautiful story about a woman Edith Piaf, her singing, and her soul. The movie is told in flash backs and is shrouded with darkness, but her voice brings light to the audience. It follows her life and her misfortunes, but always returns to the gift that was given to her, the unbelievable singing. A must watch if not only for the voice. DVD Review: Fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars
For a Francophile, music and movie lover, this was a fascinating film. I love biographies as well, and enjoyed trying to understand the French. Admittedly, this represents a rather narrow range of interests, but this is definitely a worthwhile movie.DVD Review: La Vie en Rose
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a well made, truly excellent rendition of Edith Piaf's life. It tells the story of her life though a series of flashbacks. It takes us from her humble birth, though the difficult years of her childhood and teen years. This movie helps us better understand the kind of events that helped shape her personality as well as her complexes. Throughout the film we hear her beautiful music which reflects her deep desire to be loved and her unwavering sense of hope. One comes away from the film with sadness for the difficulties she endured thoughout her life but with a great respect for her ability to rise above her problems and create beautiful music.
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?s tragic life was a constant battle to sing and survive to live and love with no regrets.Running Time: 141 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/BIOGRAPHY UPC:?026359441226 Manufacturer No:?94412Edith 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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