Le Vie Un Rose

[edjames]

While I'm still boycotting "Hairspray," (Ha Ha), I went to see the French film "Le Vie un Rose' this afternoon and was blown away by this movie.

 

Actress Marion Cotillard is absolutely wonderful as Edith Piaf in this emotional biopic about the legendary French singer.

 

Be warned, this is not a happy movie and I admit to shedding a few tears before the final credits rolled.

 

I predict Cotillard will be up for an Oscar, if not win it!

 

Anyone else seen this flick?

 

ED

[Steven_Draker]

I haven't seen it yet, but shouldn't that be "La vie en rose", Edjames ?

 

Steven Draker ~

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[+ Lucky]

RE: La Vie En Rose/Waitress

 

There was a line for the movies today with the temps here hitting 113 and several others in line were going to see La Vie en Rose, but we chose Waitress instead. It was delightful but sad to know what happened to the actress/director.

 

Even old folks whip out their cell phones at the movies nowadays. The audience was full of seniors who couldn't shut up. But I was nice and didn't say anything.

[edjames]

Sorry, Steve. My French is atrocious and I've spent more than one visit to France pointing like a silly tourist. Worked on the boys though!

 

My Spanish is better...

 

 

Ed

[+ Lucky]

Ed, I finally got around to seeing this movie and agree wholeheartedly with your assessment. She is just wonderful as Piaf; the movie is a visual delight but a painful bite. Cotillard really made me feel her pain!

[+ Charlie]

I saw the movie with Lucky, and was at first discomforted by the constant jumping around in chronology, but got used to it and realized that it is almost a metaphor for her jumbled, chaotic life. Cotillard's performance is stunning, and almost certain to get an Oscar nomination, especially nowadays when the Academy seems obsessed with realistic imitations of familiar celebrities (Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Helen Mirren as ER2, Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, Cate Blanchett as Kate Hepburn, etc.). The music took me back to my early gay life, when Piaf songs (particularly "Milord" and "Je ne regrette rien") were favorites on jukeboxes in gay bars, and it still packs a punch.

[cuddler]

This film is excellent. The audience stood, cheered ans applauded when the film ended.

The film may seem a little to dramatic but thats what her life was. To tone it down would do an injustice for this fine treat.

[pierrot]

Cotillard is wonderful and of course I love Piaf. I did think it was odd that they completely skipped over the war years. That is a particularly dramatic and interesting part of her story. By most accounts, she sang for German officers and managed to get false papers to spring French soldiers from work camps in Germany...or something like that. Anyway, from this movie, you wouldn't even know she was in France during the war.