After much anticipation... I saw the movie "La Vie en Rose!" Based on the life of Edith Piaf, France's most beloved singer... The film was done with rather chaotic clips of flashbacks dating back to her tragic childhood. Abandoned by her parents and raised in a brothel, she was discovered singing on the streets for money... Slowly she became well known while performing in cabarets around Paris, and finally rose to worldwide fame... But nothing came easy for Edith, she was blind as a child, lost her child at 16, and later the love of her life in a plane crash. She was stricken with extreme arthritis, and became addicted to morphine, which caused her to prematurely age 20 years, and eventually contributed to her death. The performance of Marion Cotillard as the French chanteuse was chilling! She embodies Edith in every imaginable way, charming, waif-like, doe-eyed, rather rough and often cruel... Cotillard makes us feel the humanity inside Edith's frail existance, and turns this film into a special event~ Je l'adore!!
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