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La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 110 | Rotten: 39

The set design and cinematography are impressive, but the real achievement of La Vie en Rose is Marion Cotillard's mesmerizing, wholly convincing performance as Edith Piaf.

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 14

The set design and cinematography are impressive, but the real achievement of La Vie en Rose is Marion Cotillard's mesmerizing, wholly convincing performance as Edith Piaf.

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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

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Art House & International, Drama

Olivier Dahan

Nov 13, 2007

$10.1M

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This isn't the first time Piaf's life has been brought to the screen and it probably won't be the last, but Cotillard makes this particular version stand apart.

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelViews
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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This is a surreal and exhausting experience.

July 6, 2007
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Marion Cotillard tears up all the available scenery in this overblown, achronological biopic of French pop singer Edith Piaf.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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La Vie is a movie so frantic to get to it all that nothing is more than touched on.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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This kind of heightened drama might not work in most movies, but it suits its larger-than-life subject: Dahan's La Vie is the movie equivalent of a torch song.

June 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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Dahan makes us wait for the cathartic release until the very end; the effect is not manipulative but absolutely exhilarating.

June 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York
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Even if you're like me and find most musical biopics depressingly formulaic, you might think Oliver Dahan's Edith Piaf movie is a slight cut above.

September 12, 2010 Full Review Source: The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Jon Frosch
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The French, as is widely known, adore suffering. That's why they love Leonard Cohen, Bud Powell, and Jim Thompson.

May 5, 2010 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express

No regrets for Cottilard's dedication, but plenty for the clichéd pap of the biopic genre

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

In La Vie en Rose, Marion Cotillard has the role of a lifetime. And she relishes it.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

Quite simply, is the best movie I have seen all year.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com
Heather Huntington
ReelzChannel.com Source: ReelzChannel.com

Marion Cotillard's Oscar win? Totally justified...Many questions remain for those of us unschooled in Piaf lore. I was confused by some of the causes even as I felt the emotional effects, thanks to deep performances.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

Much like the colorful life of the film's subject, La Vie en Rose explores the strange and emotional life of torch singer Edith Piaf and gives Marion Cotillard an Oscar for her tremendous performance.

July 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight

Cotillard joins Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) in so completely embodying a role that it seems more possession than performance.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette

Here is what made the woman tick, if you need facts, find them in a book, if you want to understand her soul, see this film

February 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

Acaba funcionando mais como atestado do talento de sua protagonista, Marion Cotillard, do que como um tributo digno da magnífica cantora que esta interpreta.

January 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Marion Cotillard is the only reason to sit through La Vie En Rose, a biopic that compounds its basic tediousness by fracturing its narrative in a vain effort to mask a stale rise-and-fall arc.

December 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment (1)
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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LA VIE EN ROSE may translate as âLife in Pinkâ?, but donâ(TM)t be deceived. This is, at times, a very depressing film, and rarely is it as upbeat as its title promises. Had the title not been a reference to Piafâ(TM)s best-recognized work, it probably would have been titled La Vie en noirâ"â?Life in Blackâ?. The film opens with âNon, je ne regrette rienâ? (No, I have no regrets), an soulful ballad, and then immediately takes off to narrate the life of a girl whose life is dangling by the thread of her wonderful voice. Marion Cotillard (INCEPTION, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS) is utterly mind-blowing here in her tour-de-force portrayal of the main character. She is 100% convincing as both a young adult and a middle-aged woman. The makeup used to manipulate her beyond Cotillard actual age is a bit flawed, but looking at other life stories that have given this mistake a new definition (i.e. J. EDGAR, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON), it seems all right. More pertinently, she succeeds greatly at lip-synching to the songs of Ãdith Piaf. Perfect in almost every possible respect, this is an absolute must-see. Non, je ne regrette rien for seeing this.

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November 26, 2011
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La Vie en Rose needs more than one viewing to understand what the filmmakers are trying to say. I loved the way Olivier Dahan took Edith Piaf's life, and took it for what it was. Her life is a very depressing and sad story with happiness and relevant parts scattered throughout. Basically, the life of famed french singer Edith Piaf is life is like a scattered puzzle. Random pieces are found when we are looking for something else. The movie really tries to show the way she lived her life in the way they put the film together. It jumps back and forth, sometimes without giving timelines, she's old in one scene, and young in the next. While I was watching the film, I got very confused, and near the end of it's almost 2.5 hour running time, I felt like the film was starting to drag. Maybe that's partly because I didn't understand the film for what it was.

The cinematography, the sets, the art direction, and costumes were all very impressive. The music was wonderful and made me feel like I was in Paris. Edith Piaf's voice is just marvellous and I think it can connect with anyone no matter who they are. But I think the main reason this film is a must see is for no other reason than Marion Cotillard. I only have one word for that performance as Edith Piaf: Jaw-dropping. She simply becomes Piaf. I mean there is no Marion Cotillard in there, it's all Piaf. That performance is probably one of the best of the last decade. So overall, La Vie en Rose is an artsy, sad and depressing biopic on France's famed singer Edith Piaf with a simply mesmerizing performance from Marion Cotillard.
January 13, 2012
Raymond Wieser
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