La Vie En Rose

Flashbacks dominate this fascinating, deliberately paced, biographical film that follows the difficult, rollercoaster life of the legendary French icon and world-famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) from her childhood living with Belleville prostitutes (Emmanuelle Seigner, et al.) and then traveling with her circus-performing father (Jean-Paul Rove) and singing for their supper in 1920s Paris, being discovered on the streets by nightclub owner Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu), falling in with boxing world champion Marcel Cerdan (Jean-Pierre Martins), performing in concert halls from Europe to New York City, to succumbing to her untimely death at age 47 in the 1960s.
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