Muddling through greatness

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2008)

La Vie en Rose La Mome The movie is about a fascinating voice and persona residing in a woman whose life is serial-tragic in almost all aspects.
A number of recordings of her singing exist and many were used to make this film. Not many movies of her are available and script writing had to provide these. From the age of 20 her life is fairly well known. From her birth and of her family before much is fabricated which is as it has to be and is well done. From a tragedy of life with her mother to the one with her father to one with an acquired "sister" the movie provides its own details. The trouble is that the director-writer seems to find chopping the sequence and re-chopping it before haphazardly putting the small pieces in random order (even reversed) will make things clearer or more interesting. Instead it seems like the output of a garbage disposal. He did add some actual dates but not enough to make a coherent study which would have had any kind of meaning. The inherent beauty of such an individual escaped me in this film which does not entertain.
Four stars out of ten. Might have been 7.5 if more sensibly sequenced.