Édith persuades Marcel to fly from Paris to join her in New York, and he wakes her up in her bedroom with a kiss. An affair ensues and, while it's supposedly a secret, "La Vie En Rose" is played for Marcel wherever he goes. Despite him being married, Édith believes she's falling in love with Marcel. While performing in New York City, Édith meets Marcel Cerdan, a fellow French national and a middleweight boxer competing for the World Champion title. Édith's career progresses and she achieves fame. Through harsh means, he enlivens her stage presence with hand gestures, better enunciation, and other lessons. Desperate, Édith turns to Raymond Asso, a songwriter and accompanist. Things go from bad to worse when her best friend, Mômone, is forcibly taken to a convent. When she next attempts a show at a cabaret, she is jeered off the stage by a hostile crowd. However, Leplée is soon shot dead and the police suspect it's due to Édith's connections to the mafia. Years later, nightclub owner Louis Leplée hires Édith to sing at his club and gives her the stage surname of Piaf, a colloquialism for sparrow that is inspired by her diminutive height of only 1.47m (4 ft 8in). She spontaneously sings " La Marseillaise" with raw emotion, mesmerizing the street crowd. During a lackluster performance, a passerby asks if Édith is part of the show. When Édith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus and performs on the streets of Paris. St Thérèse says she will always be with Édith-a belief that she carries for the rest of her life. One night, Édith sees a vision of St Thérèse in a fire eater's flames. Édith's World War I veteran father collects her to accompany him while he works as a circus acrobat. When she suffers an episode of keratitis-induced blindness, a kind sex worker named Titine tenderly cares for Édith. Édith witnesses the brutal business of prostitution. The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, " Non, je ne regrette rien" (No, I do not Regret Anything).īeginning in 1918, young Édith suffers a chaotic childhood and is eventually sent to live with her paternal-grandmother, who runs a brothel in Normandy. The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. The film grossed $87.4 million worldwide on a $25 million budget and sold over 7 million tickets in Europe. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup, BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and four additional César Awards. It made its world premiere at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival in the main competition.Ĭotillard's performance received critical acclaim and earned her several awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress – the first time an Oscar had been given for a French-language role – the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the César Award for Best Actress. The film is an international co-production between France, Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. The UK and US title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song. La Vie en Rose (literally Life in pink, French pronunciation: French: La Môme) is a 2007 biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf, co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starring Marion Cotillard as Piaf.
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