Articles tagged ‘La Vie en Rose’

Star Gazing: Best Actress Academy Award for Marion Cotillard?

By Parisgirl | January 26th, 2008 | Add a Comment »

La Vie en Rose or ‘La Mome’, Oliver Dahan’s film about the life of French singer Edith Piaf was released on Februray 14, 2007 in France. The amount of energy packed into Marion Cotillard’s performance is positively nuclear. Rolling Stone’s review called it a performance for the ages.
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Paris’s Piaf: Slice of Post World War I Paris

By Parisgirl | July 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

There are plenty of good reasons to see Olivier Dahan’s film “La Vie en Rose” a biography of singer Edith Piaf. She was born in Paris in 1915. She lived in the Belleville district of Paris (in the northeast which remains to this day a working class neighborhood). If director Martin Scorsese still plans [...]