La Vie En Rose

Name: La Vie En Rose
Genre: Biography, Music, Drama
Released: 2007
Duration: 140 min
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve

Olivier Dahan20072h 20mBiography, Music, Drama

Why we chose it

Marion Cotillard surely regrets nothing about playing Édith Piaf, since the Academy gave her an Oscar for it. That huge voice comes out of a small, battered body, and the story of a life that was tragic but full of love hits you hard.

Synopsis

After the First World War, little Édith ends up in a brothel run by her father’s mother, where the women who work there bring her up. Then her father takes her away and stands her on the pavement to sing for coins. One day the cabaret owner Louis Leplée stops to listen, and before long he gives her a stage and a new name: Piaf, the sparrow.