Wow...amazing film.

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2008)

La Vie En Rose is a film on the life of French singer Edith Piaf. Her life was nothing short of extraordinary, as was the film. She began as a sickly young child, living on the streets with her mother who is a singer. The mother leaves her with her own mother, and Edith is taken by her father to live with his mother in her bordello. There Edith finds motherly affection from women of the bordello, but she is taken from them by her father, to work at a circus. Later, around the age of 20, the marvelous voice of Edith Giovanna Gassion is discovered as she sings on the streets. From there, "The Little Sparrow"'s, as she is called, career takes off, and she becomes one of the most well-known singers in Paris. This film, despite its confusingly unchronilogical order of events, was amazing. Marion Cotillard's performance as Edith Piaf was simply wonderful, absolutely worthy of the Oscar she won.