Review of La Vie en Rose (2007) by Heather G — 11 Apr 2009

Excellent Movie Biography of Edith Piaf. Great Music. The star Marion Cotillard is so fantastic in this role its no wonder she won the best Oscar. The Sets and costuming are fantastic and the entire film is filmed with a kind of dark tint to give the film a very NOIR look.

The Singing and music and first rate. The DVD sound first rate. I have an audiophile playback system and the sound was very very good. The actual movie itself is entertaining but kind of depressing because she was after all an alcoholic and drug addict and this movie tells of her rise and fall.

She died at age 44. Some of the scenes characterizing her personality were not very flattering--- she appears as a loud mouth uncouth uncultured alcoholic drug addict. I guess this was the way she was in real life?? But over all the movie is still fascinating.

I have long listened to her since the 1970s and my first stereo. I have a negative comment to the directors and producers that they made a big failure in the film of also not putting the words of the songs in subtitles as she sings--big mistake!! Great film Highest recommendation 5 stars!