La Vie En Rose

Biopic of the lengendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf - covering the entirety of her tragic life from rural France to urban New York, from the 1920s to the 1960s - played by Marion Cotillard in an Academy Award-winning role. 

Opening with her distressing last performance, where she collapses on stage, director Olivier Dahan backtracks to Piaf’s childhood in the muddy ruin of wartime Belleville. A virtual orphan, young Edith is discarded by her mother, taken in by prostitutes and then reclaimed by a father who 'discovers' her talent when she's forced to sing for their supper. Before long, she’s picked up by a nightclub owner (Depardieu) and soon becomes a revered, international performer, albeit one whose success was tempered by a lifelong battle with drugs.

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