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 * __La Vie__** **__en Rose__**
 * //La Vie //****// en Rose //** is a French biographical drama film made in 2007.The movie tells about the life of the French singer Édith Piaf. The story starts with Édith as a child in 1918. It begins with Edith's mother writing a letter to her Edith’s father who is fighting WWI. She drops Edith off at her mother's so she can chase her dream of being an artist. Her father returns to Paris and reclaims Edith. He drops her off at his mother's, who owns a brothel in Normandy . Edith is raised in the brothel and adopted informally by Titine, one of the prostitutes who sings to Edith and plays with her (Rose, Wikipedia, 2010). Several years after the end of the war, Edith's father comes back and takes Edith to live with him. Her father works in the circus as an acrobat. When Edith is ten years old, her father leaves the circus and begins performing on the streets of Paris. At one point a spectator asks if Edith is part of the show. Her father makes her sing La Marseilles . More crowds gather around her to hear her sing (Rose, Rotten Tomatoes, 2007). Years later, Edith makes a friend from a factory job, Mômone. While singing on the street in a man approaches. He is Louis Leplée, who has a nightclub and he offers Edith a job singing at the club . He eventually changes her name to Piaf, meaning a sparrow, because her original name wasn’t very theatrical. Afterwards, Leplée is shot dead, and everybody thinks that Edith introduced him to the mafia that causes his death. She is interviewed by the police and is forced to sing at a cabaret but she is thrown off the stage. Edith finally meets up with Raymond Asso , a songwriter and teaches her to gesture with her hands while singing. At her first concert at a music hall she has a short period of stage fright. Asso tells her finally to stand up and she manages to shake off this fright. The performance was a success. Edith next travels to New York for more performances. There she meets Marcel Cerdan , a French boxer competing for the World Champion title. He reveals that he has a pig farm and that he has a wife but she still falls in love with him very quickly (Rose, Wikipedia, 2010). Marcel attends her performance of La Vie en Rose . That night, Marcel and Edith escape of Edith's hotel, where they spend their first night together. The next morning Edith wakes up imagining Marcel in a suit lounging on her bed. She hurries off to get him coffee and a present, a watch. Louis, her manager, tells her that Marcel's plane crashed. Edith searches uncontrollably for the ghost of Marcel that was on her bed just a moment before (Rose, Rotten Tomatoes, 2007). Later, there are many flash forwards to a small, old Edith with frizzy red hair, sitting in a chair. Another set of flash forwards shows Edith with short curly hair singing on stage and collapsing every other song. After her first period of recuperation, she travels to California with her husband Jacques Pills . She sits with Jacques at the side of a pool and is offered a strange fruity martini drink. She wonders if he will ask for a divorce. In the next scene, they are at a doctor's office. She explained that she has been using drugs since the plane crash. Before the doctor can tell her how the shots have been affecting her health, her husband says he wants her to go into rehab . Five years later a small Edith slowly pads into her living room. Her entourage is crowded, concerned, on the other side of the room. She determines that it is impossible, for obvious reasons, to perform at the Olympia . Her long-time arrange Bruno Coquatrix is told to cancel the show. A new songwriter and arranger shows up with a song, "Je ne regrette rien", and Edith exclaims performs it at the Olympia.As she begins singing "Je ne regrette rien," there are more flashbacks (Rose, Wikipedia, 2010). In a sunny day in the United States, the smaller, red-haired Edith walks out to the beach. A young woman with a purse and bag approaches and introduces herself and asks for an interview. She asks Edith simple questions. As Louis carries Edith into her bedroom and tucks her into bed there are subtitling that read that this is the date of her death. She says she cannot remember things. She flashes back to small moments: her mother, and her father giving her a Japanese doll. She remembers her child, Marcelle from he days of performing in the streets. (Rose, Rotten Tomatoes, 2007). She remembers how the father yelled at her for taking Marcelle out on the street. She was singing in a cabaret when he came to tell her Marcelle was in the hospital. They arrive, and Marcelle has already died of meningitis . In the last scene of the film, Edith performs her debut of "Je ne regrette rien" at the Olympia.

According to Wikipedia, the film won five [|Césars], including one for Best Actress, and [|Marion Cotillard] won an [|Academy Award] for her performance, marking the first time an Oscar had been given for a [|French-language] role. She is also the first French actress to win a Best Actress [|BAFTA] and the first to win a Comedy or Musical [|Golden Globe] for a foreign language role. It also became the first French cinema film to win two Oscars, the other for Makeup. (Rose, Wikipedia, 2010) Here's the trailer: media type="youtube" key="uzEJ7NV_g98" height="385" width="640"
 * Cast Acoording to Wikipedia **
 * [|Marion Cotillard] as [|Édith Piaf]
 * [|Gérard Depardieu] as [|Louis Leplée]
 * [|Sylvie Testud] as Mômone (Simone Berteaut)
 * [|Jean-Pierre Martins] as [|Marcel Cerdan]
 * [|Emmanuelle Seigner] as Titine
 * [|Pascal Greggory] as Louis Barrier
 * [|Catherine Allégret] as Louise Gassion
 * [|Jean-Paul Rouve] as Louis Gassion
 * [|Clotilde Courau] as Anetta Gassion
 * [|Marie-Armelle Deguy] as [|Marguerite Monnot]
 * [|Marc Barbé] as [|Raymond Asso]
 * [|Caroline Raynaud] as Ginou
 * [|Pavlína N] [|ě] [|mcová] as American journalist

