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: HBO HOME VIDEO
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, 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
Product features:
- 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?
DVD Reviews of La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)
DVD Review: Not since Vivien Leigh ...
Summary: 5 Stars
There are enough review to tell you this is a 'must see' - I wholeheartedly agree ... a terrific film and brilliant work of art. I can only say, Ms. Cotillard was a revelation; the finest work in acting since Vivien Leigh's "Scarlett" was put on film ~ Ms. Cotillard achieves at a very young age that which many actresses will never grasp ... perfection. BRAVA~!DVD Review: Compelling but disjointed
Summary: 3 Stars
La Vie en Rose was a thoroughly absorbing film, if a bit disjointed. Marion Cotillard played the role of Edith Piaf, French singing icon, to the hilt. The filming was atmospheric, moody, edgy, as was the directing. The only problem was that there was so much jumping around from one point to another in Piaf's tragically short life, that at times I couldn't follow the story line.
The best parts of the film, for me, depicted Piaf's early life as a singer. Her evolution from street singer to the "voice of Paris" was fascinating. And with Cotillard's wonderful evocative performance, you could understand the reasons for Piaf's fame, even if you had no prior knowledge of her career. The sheer volume of emotion that Cotillard packed into Piaf's most famous songs was impressive.
Unfortunately, the overall sense of the story dropped away as the director popped forward into Piaf's later life--sometimes for only a minute or two. The discontinuity was only accentuated by the fact that the film completely ignored the war years. This was not only a crucial time for France, but for Piaf as a performer. The fact that she sang for German officers opened her up to charges of Nazi collaboration, even though she supported the Resistance and valiantly saved Jews from certain death at great personal risk. The omission of this era in favor of far too many scenes showing Piaf as a drug-ridden, abusive egomaniac robbed much of the character from the film's subject, and did not do justice to the lady.
Nevertheless, the film was enjoyable in an intense, French kind of way. With different editing (especially of the deathbed "flashbacks" referring to events that the film did not show), it would have been a much more coherent and moving portrait of one of the world's most significant and enduring voices.
DVD Review: La Vie en Rose
Summary: 5 Stars
Unfortunately, life was very seldom "en rose" for Edith Piaf, and this movie portrays it very realistically, without trying to soften or embellish the truth.DVD Review: "No Regrets"
Summary: 5 Stars
This film has reunited me with Edith Piaf. As a very young person, over 50 years ago, I saw her perform live in New York. I remember the excitement surrounding her appearance. I had never heard her perform before that pivitol day and since that day, I've never heard enough of "The Little Sparrow."
At that time, I knew nothing about her backround. As I grew older, I discovered the facts surrounding her tragic life. Did her music mirror her personal life or was it the other way around?
This film mingles facts with performance and does it seamlessly and what appears to be effortlessly. Even with the switching between time periods in her life, the film runs smoothly.
I frequently wait for a new film to burn off some of the initial higher price before ordering it, but in this case, I paid the higher introductory prices and have never had any regrets. Absolutely "No Regrets" at all...
DVD Review: A delightful Surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
I did not come to this movie via the direct root. I didn't see it in a video store and notice it on Netflix. I was doing some research on "Saving Private Ryan", I was curious about the French singer that the American troops were listening to prior to the German attack. I heard the name, Edith Piaf . I asked my aunt if she knew who she was and she told me that she knew about Edith Piaf because she was very famous when my Aunt was younger. I never heard of this woman before, yet I was very moved by the voice. After doing some research On Edith Piaf I found there was a movie about her called "La Vie en Rose". I found it at the Library and took it home and plugged it into my DVD player in my computer and sat back and watched.
What unfolded in front of my eyes was by far one of the most emotional heart wrecking movies with such beautiful songs sung by Edith. I was forced to tears and told everyone I knew, about this movie. The directing and acting was superb. I have seen Marion Cotillard in a French movie before and I was very impressed with her performance. It was no surprise that she walked up on the Academy stage to receive her well deserved Oscar. There are people who come forth in our lives with such extraordinary talent and once or twice in our lifetime, Edith was one of these. That voice cannot be reproduced it has such a special tone.
The storyline was spellbinding, they told the story of this little lady's life, it was so tragic and how someone could survive such pains and loses and come to the forefront to be one of our greatest singers of an age is beyond my understanding. The movie is summed up at the end with a most amazing song and just destroys me emotionally. "Non! Rien de rien. I play that song over and over and it has such meaning for me. This is the English translation for the song:
No! Absolutely nothing...
No! I regret nothing
Neither the good that I've done nor the bad
All this is much the same to me!
No! Absolutely nothing...
No! I regret nothing...
It is paid, swept away, forgotten
I don't care about the past!
With my souvenirs
I lit a fire
My sorrows, my pleasures
I need them no more!
Swept away the love affairs
With their tremors
Swept away forever
I leave with nothing ...
No! Absolutely nothing...
No! I regret nothing
Neither the good that I've done nor the bad
All this is much the same to me!
No! Absolutely nothing...
No! I regret nothing...
Because my life, because my joys
Today that begins with you!
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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