--- product_id: 427949208 title: "La Vie En Rose" price: "€ 34.27" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/427949208-la-vie-en-rose store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # La Vie En Rose **Price:** € 34.27 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** La Vie En Rose - **How much does it cost?** € 34.27 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/427949208-la-vie-en-rose) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A big screen treatment for one of France's most revered singers, Edith Piaf. From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive. Raised in poverty, Edith's unique voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world. Review: Get out your accordion and a bottle of French wine. - Beautiful film, thoughtfully structured. Normally multiple flashbacks are a huge red flag, but in this case it works. Ms. Cotillard is astonishing, downplaying her own beauty and disappearing into Piaf. The shoot must have been physically and psychically brutal. The only flaws with the story are not the film makers' particular fault. One, Piaf has no arc (outside of her career). She was a reactive person by nature and remained so through-out her life. They try to give her a sense of peace and reflection in a scene on a California beach but it is one of the few scenes that rings hollow. The other (minor) issue is obviously this is a French film and the makers tend to assume that a French audience will mostly know the (tragic) beats of her story, such is her status in the pantheon. For an American audience, however, this is problematic. Piaf's daughter is introduced by her childhood death by meningitis. It is horrible, but less horrible than it might have been had we known she even had a daughter by a husband we had just met. Also WW2 is skipped over with one throw away scene where she meets a soldier leaving for the front. Her affair with Cerdan, however, is wonderfully done, handled with both substance and great delicacy. His death tears your heart out - even if you know it is coming. The actor who plays Cerdan is credible as both the man and the boxer. I'm sure most Americans don't know France ever had a serious boxer, much less a world champion, but it is true. A fine, fine portrayal. Finally, the music. I am no musicologist so I am not going to comment on that, but her performances and songs will outlive all of us, and the film is both generous and clever in handling the music. This is what they used to call a twenty hankie movie, and it is all of that. Preparez vos mouchoirs, as they say. A couple of interesting points: Claude Lelouch made 'Edith and Marcel' in '83 casting Cerdan's real son as his father. I'm not going to comment until I can go back and screen it again, it's been too many years, but it is probably worth digging up. Finally, a film about Cerdan starring Patrick Dewaere was in production when Dewaere committed suicide, the awful loss of a wonderful young actor. Review: Incredible Transformation by an Actress - I had to go back and see this film a second time in order to be certain that I had seen the performance that I had seen. Marianne Cotillard (sp?), who is actually very beautiful and somewhat tall and thin, WAS Edith Piaf in this film. Whoever Edith Piaf was. And therein lies a tale, because there are so many contradictory stories about her, including those from her, from her so-called "sister", from friends, from reviewers. I had to go and read all of the bios that I could find about Piaf, and it was amazing how different they all were. Even Edith herself wrote two different auto-bios and they were quite different from each other. But the movie draws you in and claims you for the entirety of the film. And there is no question it is due to the performance. The film itself is not great, but the performance is breathtaking. I have now seen it three times and have, of course, pre-ordered the DVD. But for those who love film, who love actors, who love brilliance, I strongly recommend that they sit back and enjoy this unusual, wonderful, inhabited performance. Jan Schulman ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,437 Reviews | ## Images ![La Vie En Rose - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7103gCxlCRL.jpg) ![La Vie En Rose - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817sfDxdAmL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get out your accordion and a bottle of French wine. *by C***C on September 26, 2014* Beautiful film, thoughtfully structured. Normally multiple flashbacks are a huge red flag, but in this case it works. Ms. Cotillard is astonishing, downplaying her own beauty and disappearing into Piaf. The shoot must have been physically and psychically brutal. The only flaws with the story are not the film makers' particular fault. One, Piaf has no arc (outside of her career). She was a reactive person by nature and remained so through-out her life. They try to give her a sense of peace and reflection in a scene on a California beach but it is one of the few scenes that rings hollow. The other (minor) issue is obviously this is a French film and the makers tend to assume that a French audience will mostly know the (tragic) beats of her story, such is her status in the pantheon. For an American audience, however, this is problematic. Piaf's daughter is introduced by her childhood death by meningitis. It is horrible, but less horrible than it might have been had we known she even had a daughter by a husband we had just met. Also WW2 is skipped over with one throw away scene where she meets a soldier leaving for the front. Her affair with Cerdan, however, is wonderfully done, handled with both substance and great delicacy. His death tears your heart out - even if you know it is coming. The actor who plays Cerdan is credible as both the man and the boxer. I'm sure most Americans don't know France ever had a serious boxer, much less a world champion, but it is true. A fine, fine portrayal. Finally, the music. I am no musicologist so I am not going to comment on that, but her performances and songs will outlive all of us, and the film is both generous and clever in handling the music. This is what they used to call a twenty hankie movie, and it is all of that. Preparez vos mouchoirs, as they say. A couple of interesting points: Claude Lelouch made 'Edith and Marcel' in '83 casting Cerdan's real son as his father. I'm not going to comment until I can go back and screen it again, it's been too many years, but it is probably worth digging up. Finally, a film about Cerdan starring Patrick Dewaere was in production when Dewaere committed suicide, the awful loss of a wonderful young actor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible Transformation by an Actress *by J***. on November 7, 2007* I had to go back and see this film a second time in order to be certain that I had seen the performance that I had seen. Marianne Cotillard (sp?), who is actually very beautiful and somewhat tall and thin, WAS Edith Piaf in this film. Whoever Edith Piaf was. And therein lies a tale, because there are so many contradictory stories about her, including those from her, from her so-called "sister", from friends, from reviewers. I had to go and read all of the bios that I could find about Piaf, and it was amazing how different they all were. Even Edith herself wrote two different auto-bios and they were quite different from each other. But the movie draws you in and claims you for the entirety of the film. And there is no question it is due to the performance. The film itself is not great, but the performance is breathtaking. I have now seen it three times and have, of course, pre-ordered the DVD. But for those who love film, who love actors, who love brilliance, I strongly recommend that they sit back and enjoy this unusual, wonderful, inhabited performance. Jan Schulman ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First-Rate Musical Biopic *by D***N on May 31, 2008* Prior to seeing "La Vie En Rose" my only frame of reference of Edith Piaf was in a scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where the soldiers in repose were playing a record of hers. Musical biograghy is a tricky proposition that if done improperly can border on the cliched. Director Olivier Dahan's film has an interesting structure. Though told in mostly linear fashion he ingeniously uses jumps in time to comment on the action. What I also liked about this disc is it eschewed subtitles for the songs. Even if you don't know a lick of French you don't need a translation to feel the power of the songs. Marion Cotillard deservedly won an Oscar for her portrait of a woman who despite personal trials and tribulations held her head high and perservered through her music. Cotillard is masterful in her transformation from a young girl to a middle-aged woman who, through debilitating infirmity, has to trudge through life yet still maintain her dignity. The film's make-up people won an Oscar and deservedly so. That said, I think Cotillard could have suggested the required physical transformations of Piaf without the use of prosthetics. 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