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Re: La Vie en Rose, the Movie

web directory — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:51:48 -0000

A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing...

Re: La Vie en Rose, the Movie

Ralph — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:23:38 -0000

I agree that Marion Cotillard is absolutely sensational as Edith Piaf, but the film is a bit too surreal and disjointed to be considered a great movie. I was shocked to see that the film jumps from 1940 to 1947 and never shows a single scene of occupied or liberated France. A bio-pic about Edith Piaf and there's nothing about World War II? Hmmm, methinks the script could have used some work.

Re: La Vie en Rose, the Movie

Tom Watson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:14:59 -0000

Come to think of it - a list of biopics, good and bad....hmmm.

Re: La Vie en Rose, the Movie

Tom Watson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:13:56 -0000

From what I've seen of the previews, this one has such a lush look to it - seems so well-shot - it's gonne be an award-grabber.

Dan - excellent point about LOA. But it was pure fantasy, you're right.

Re: La Vie en Rose, the Movie

Dan Leo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:56:18 -0000

I'm of your opinion about bio-pics, Anthony. They nearly always seem to take a great person's life and reduce it to a table of contents, minus the content. And the more one knows about the great person's life, the less satisfying the two-hour cinematic distilllation will be. My opinion of "Lawrence of Arabia" changed dramatically after reading a good biography of the man. As moving as Peter O'Toole's performance was, as literate as Robert Bolt's sript was, as powerful as David Lean's direction was, the man Lawrence and his life was so much more complex and so much more interesting than the movie version. I still admire the movie tremendously but I think I'd admire it more if its "Lawrence" were an entirely fictional character.

I love Edith Piaf's music and so I hesitate to see the movie. But, y'know, if it introduces a new generation to her records, then it's all to the good.