A swirling, impressionistic
portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, La vie en Rose
stars Marion Cotillard as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf.
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to
the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls,
Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live
and love. Born into poverty, Piaf was abandoned by her mother.
While singing for pennies on street corners, she attracted the
attention of Louis Leplée, owner of one of the most posh
nightclubs in town. He persuaded her to sing and gave her the
nickname “la Môme Piaf” because of her short
height and nervousness. But in her audacious attempt to tame
her tragic destiny, the Little Sparrow flew so high that she
could not fail to burn her wings. The great love of Piaf's life,
Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan, died in a plane
crash in 1949. Piaf developed a serious morphine addiction following
a car accident in 1951, and eventually succumbed to cancer in
1963, dying at the untimely age of forty-seven. Piaf remains,
however, one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the
indelible signatures of the 20th Century.
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