I think I would have liked this film a lot more if they had told her life a littel more in order as it was I sort of lost track of when things happened. Overall, a fairly dull biography.
Melodramatic and annoying everytime Piaf's childhood is portrayed, the movie was starting to piss me off for all the hype on Cotillard's performance as I believed it wouldn't live up to its buzz because of the awful movie I was seeing... and then the 20 year-old Piaf came to the rescue and Cotillards breathtaking, legendary ability to get into the french chanteuse's skin appears on screen and knocks us out of our chairs.
Unfortunately, that's it. The movie fails to follow Cotillard's rythm and flops over and over again into the same melodramatic, soap-opera, Lifetime TV movie crap and it becomes one more biopic for the bunch.
It is true: if it weren't for Cotillard, this would be an awful movie. With her, it's great but not extraordinary. She deserved a better movie. She really did.
c'est mangnifique!the most extra-ordinary movie i've ever seen.beautiful.marvelous.wickedly funny.tragical musical drama.Marion Cottilard acting really 'snapped' to my heart.I clapped my hands after the movie ended
La Vie en Rose! Oh i couldn't keep myself away from the screen for more than a second when I rented this movie. The true story was stunning, comical, heartbreaking, and forever memorable. Edith Piaf's life was truely a life changing experiance. The singing and acting perfromances were stupendous. The things that happened to Piaf during her life (examples--- Growing up in a whore house, being moved around all the time by people who didn't care about her) you would be strong and have the courage to do and be what a star needs to do and be like. The director OliverDahan knew how to show the life of a woman whose childhood made her famous and her fame made her age. Marion Cotillard did an wonderful job being Piaf and when she was done you couldn't wait to go rent more of her movies!
It ain't a musical, but strangely the best part of the movie it's the songs. Not so brilliant as a movie, is just the typical bio, but is the amazing perfomance of Marion Cotillard what gives remembrance to the movie.
Acabo de tener una experiencia cinematografía embriagante gracias a esta sensacional película. Desde el primer momento supe que La vie en Rose era una película que tenia que ver a como diera lugar, y a diferencia de muchas otras ocasiones las expectativas fueron superadas. La Môme, titulo original, es una película que lleva el lenguaje cinematográfico biográfico a otro nivel. Los saltos en el tiempo, la música de Piaf que se adhiere sutilmente como otro personaje más, las composiciones de color por épocas; todo orquestado para adentrarnos en el inquietante mundo de Edith Piaf.
Marion Cotillar merece mención a parte... de no ser por que seria una situación totalmente risible me hubiera parado a aplaudirle al terminar la película. Ante la imponente interpretación de Marion las demás actuaciones quedan opacadas. ¿Después de esto que elemento nos quedan para cuestionar su oscar?... absolutamente ninguno.
Sin duda un resultado maravilloso y conmovedor que hipnotiza como la inmortal voz de ?La Môme Piaf?
A touching and beautiful biopic of the tragic and turmoil-filled life of Edith Piaf, the French singer with one of the most captivating and mesmerizing voice I've heard. I'm embarrassed to say I've never heard of her until I saw the movie but I'm glad I saw it now for she truly was something extraordinary. I still wish the movie would've explored more, given us more of her wartime experiences. Marion Cotillard gives us a stunning performance.
Solid performance in a foreign film. I can see why it won the Oscar; but the melodramatic histeria of the life of this singer gave me an absolute headache.
While resonating with the unique breadth and depth of the soulful disarming voice of this nearly mythic chanteuse, the male scrutiny of her more earthbound social and psychological struggles as a woman diminishes the potential to truly illuminate her life
"The most astonishing immersion of one performer into the body and soul of another ever encountered on film."
Marion Cotillard delivers a superb performance throughout the whole movie, and though rightfully deserves every glamorous award she recieved.
Shot in an unchronological order, the film
is Brilliantly directed by Olivier Dahan. It would be a shame not to mention the strong structure that let the 140 minutes flow by smoothly, thus a near perfect editing.
Every song was well chosen and put in the masterpiece at the right place and the right time.
You will never see a better biography of legendary Edith Piaf.
An excellent film. Marion Cotillard deserved her Oscar winning performance as Edith Piaf. This film looks totally like a musical but it isnt really. The music in the film doesn?t really flow with the plot of the film. It is a really upsetting and a breathtaking film that deserved its Best Actress oscar and Best Make-Up oscar aswell. Clever how they made Marion Cotillard look really old with her orange hair and her wrinkled face.
I confess not being familiar with Piaf as a person (though I do like some of her songs) but this made me want to learn more. The way the movie was shot was wonderful because it showed only certain moments of her life but not necessarily the best known. One cleverly shot moment in particular moved me into tears but I don't want to give any spoilers.
Extremely touching movie, Marion Cotillard fully deserved the Oscar, she was so great, interpreting Edith Piaf. The cruel and real life a a best singer, the atmosphere of the old Paris through the life and the drama of a single woman. Excellent!
I can see why Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her portrayal as Edith Piaf...her performance was great! What an amazing story! I think the film did a great job of capturing the life of Edith Piaf on screen. So much so that, I was so engrossed into the film that I forgot the time, and before I new it two hours had past! Such a great film. I recommend this for viewing!
I enjoyed the portrayal of Edith Piaf by Marion Cottilard - actually it was amazing. However, the story itself in this film just jumps all over the place - very annoying in a 2.5 hr movie. Also I do agree with others that said the subtitles flashed too fast (and I watch foreign films all the time and seldom bothered by them - in this case I was) and in addition I also agree that there should have been subtitles for the words of the many songs she sang through-out the film. Very very odd that there was not - in other films lyrics to songs being sung are normally subtitled in italics - but in this movie about a singer's life the very words to her songs are left a mystery to those of us that do not speak French. So I cannot say I watched this with any amount of ease or totally enjoyed, but Ms Cottilard 's performance could not be denyed.
I knew I would love it. I saw a couple of seconds of Marion Cotillard's performance at the last Oscar ceremony, but I didn't think that the hole movie would be that powerful.
Yes Marion Cotillard will go down in history, but the movie must get some credit too. Pretty perfect in its genre, be ready to get every possible emotion.
Marion Cotillard absolutely positively blew me away with her extraordinary performance as Edith Piaf; she embodied the nuances of Piaf's personality and life so well. Despite the fact that the movie is 2 hours and 20 minutes, the time absolutely flies by.
Marion Cotillard is just unbelievable, and the rest of the movie does a pretty good job to back her up. While most will probably be turned off by the very fragmented storyline, I actually liked it- I thought it added a nice effect.
This movie caught me off guard and totally sucked me into the tragic and mostly unfortunate history and life of France's famous "Sparrow" - Edith Piaf.
I couldn't help but totally empathize with the songstress while she was a little girl, being raised on and off by her vagabond father, being left for a time in a brothel, to be care for by the house's madame, suffering through an terribly serious eye infection, and finally forced by her father to perform on the streets to earn her keep.
The story continues through her discovery and whirlwind rise to fame, while constantly battling health issues and alcoholism, her tragic love for a married prize fighter and all the way through to her final performance and eventual lonely death.
At 140 minutes, it may be difficult for some to get past the sub-titles, some of which were flashed way too fast on the screen, but once you get the gist of it, this film seemed relatively short.
The performance by Marion Cottilard is hauntingly brilliant, and is almost reminiscent of Judy Davis' portrayal of Judy Garland in the made-for-TV movie "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
The film is rated "PG-13" for substance abuse, sexual content, brief nudity, language and thematic elements.
I have to admit, her portrayal of Edith Piaf was astounding. The movie itself, was strange and I got a little lost... I think because it was in French and I wasn't looking at the screen.
This film is extremely bleak and depressing, but very beautiful at the same time. After having watched this, I don't know if I really like Edith Piaf anymore, as the film shows her personal life-one that was largely shrouded in mystery and not well known to the public. She was a fascinating person, but the film really shows the tormented and at times largely unlikeable person that she was, and that's what makes the film bleak and depressing. There are very few moments of true happiness and joy throughout. When I said I wasn't sure if I liked her, that was not in regards to her music. Overall, this is a really well-done film, and Marion Cotillard is beyond superb in her much deserved Oscar winning turn as Edith.This film is not for all tastes, and mainly for lovers of French films, music, culture, but even then, and despite the bleakness, this is a magnificent piece of art. Besides being bleak, the only real criticism I have with the film is that it is overlong (by about 20 minutes or so), and much of it is not in chronological order, jumping back and forth between various stages of Edith's life and career. That does cause the story to be somewhat inconprehensible at times, but not enough to make the film unwatchable. If it weren't for that and the running time, I'd give it a higher rating, but due to the problems, it is worthy of no less than a 4.
La vie en rose (the life in pink), extroardinary performance by Marion Cotillard. i really liked the idea of the non-linear of key events from the life of Edith Piaf, her acting (have to repeat it again) is astonishing, the ferocity that it brings to the screen is amazing!
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