everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Amazing acting by Marion Cotillard. I wasnt familiar with Edith Piaf's story before so it was cool to learn about her life. Turns out it was a sad and eventful one.The movie itself is actually sometimes boring but there are also things that happen that makes you want to see till the end. Its a biographical movie about the French singer Edith Piaf. Even if you dont know her name you'll recognise her songs and voice.

"La Vie en Rose" is the biography of the French singer Édith Piaf who was regarded as France's national diva, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars.In this movie we the outstanding interpretation of Marion Cotillard (Won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role), who plays as Edith Piaf and I think that this interpretation of her was her best and I liked it very much. I also liked the interpretation of Gérard Depardieu who plays as Louis Leplée (he gave to Edith Piaf her nickname as La Môme Piaf = The Little Sparrow) a close friend of Edith Piaf who helped her at her start as singer.Finally I think that "La Vie en Rose" is a really good Biography movie that shows us from what difficulties Edith Piaf passed to become the singer we know today. With this movie you will understand how difficult was that and you will feel all her emotions and that was another one reason which I liked the interpretation of Marion Cotillard because she makes you feel all that emotions.

I have long heard of this film, since it had won the Oscar Best Actress prize for lead actress Marion Cotillard for her total embodiment of the central character, French singer Edith Piaf. Oddly though, I never really got to watch this movie until now. It was only because I had just seen an amazing stage production called "Piaf," a play written by Pam Gems in 1978. This play introduced me to Piaf as a most dramatic and tragic character. I felt compelled to finally watch this movie "La Vie en Rose" and compare notes.Thankfully for the play, I was able to get the flow of the whole story, despite the technique employed by the film director Olivier Dahan of telling her story non-linearly, in erratic flashbacks. Some of the flashbacks would inexplicably merge into main story which may confuse a lot of viewers who have no knowledge of Piaf's life story. If you knew how the story goes in the first place though, his story telling style choices may actually come across as artistic. Unlike the play, this movie tells a lot about Edith's sad and eventful childhood. This part of her life would include interesting tidbits about being in the circus, as well as going blind with her sight restored by what seemed to be a miracle by her patroness Therese of the Child Jesus. These details of course was beyond the scope of the play. The play though spent significant time to tell about Piaf's activities during World War II, as well as about her second and last husband, Theo Sarapo. The latter was mentioned in passing by Piaf on her deathbed. On the other hand, the film totally skipped these two important episodes of Piaf's checkered life.But both in the movie and play, the music of Piaf is front and center. In the film, while Marion Cotillard perfected the stance, facial expression and gestures of Piaf, she only lip-synched to the original recordings or recordings done by a sound-alike. The stage Piaf though had to sing LIVE with bravura with every performance. The final song "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" was a truly a spectacular showstopper in both film and play as sung in French. However the film thankfully had English subtitles to tell me what the song really meant, and I saw how much meaning the song had to Piaf's life as whole at that point.The eventful life of Madame Edith Piaf is truly a winning acting piece for any actress. With the film and the play, I witnessed both actresses transform into Piaf. Lucky for Cotillard that she just needed to do this once right to be printed on film, the actress in the play had the additional challenge and difficulty to do repeated performances of this very physically and vocally draining role. In any case, both this biopic and the play will have you interested to listen more to the music of Piaf. Fortunately for us in the age of Youtube, we can also check out video recordings of the real Piaf in action, and we will marvel more about how these talented actresses portrayed her so convincingly.

Well, this was just a giant chore. Marion Cotillard does her best and it's a very impressive transformation on her part, stripping away all of her elegance to dive into this character, but I've rarely seen a film so miserably directed. Olivier Dahan takes what must have been an interesting life and somehow turns it into two of the most brutally trying hours I've had in my life. I was so tempted to throw in the towel on this one many times, but was determined to stick it out.Unfortunately it never got better and things just became more melodramatic and less and less interesting. The structure is all over the place, jumping from time to time (to some other time, I think?) with no reason or rhythm. The whole thing is absolutely incomprehensible, to the point where I didn't know who half the characters were or what stage of her life we were at or what was even going on half the time. Absolutely ridiculous. Worse, they take this person and turn her into such a loathsome creature, there wasn't a moment where I was even interested in her.It felt like they were so desperate to bring out sympathy or empathy from the audience, but it was such a miserably hollow experience the whole way through. I love Cotillard to death and the physical transformation is impressive, but I can't praise her performance too much if I never even cared about this dreadful person for the entire two hours that I was forced to sit through her wretched life. A good physical work, but I was never able to feel anything.