The movie is the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf, a superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner.
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1947, Prague, Czechoslovakia
8 February 1964, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
9 April 1996, Mons, Belgium
10 April 1961, Grandru, Oise, France
3 April 1969, Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France
3 April 1931, Havre, France
16 December 1984, Paris, France
8 September 1954, Paris, France
22 June 1966, Paris, France
2 May 1962, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
September 12, 2010
Even if you're like me and find most musical biopics depressingly formulaic, you might think Oliver Dahan's Edith Piaf movie is a slight cut above.
July 06, 2007
Marion Cotillard tears up all the available scenery in this overblown, achronological biopic of French pop singer Edith Piaf.
July 06, 2007
La Vie is a movie so frantic to get to it all that nothing is more than touched on.
January 04, 2008
This isn't the first time Piaf's life has been brought to the screen and it probably won't be the last, but Cotillard makes this particular version stand apart.
June 27, 2007
This kind of heightened drama might not work in most movies, but it suits its larger-than-life subject: Dahan's La Vie is the movie equivalent of a torch song.
July 17, 2008
Marion Cotillard's Oscar win? Totally justified...Many questions remain for those of us unschooled in Piaf lore. I was confused by some of the causes even as I felt the emotional effects, thanks to deep performances.
August 25, 2008
Quite simply, is the best movie I have seen all year.
May 05, 2010
The French, as is widely known, adore suffering. That's why they love Leonard Cohen, Bud Powell, and Jim Thompson.
July 06, 2007
This is a surreal and exhausting experience.
June 22, 2007
Compelling but punishing -- an artful ordeal. The best way to process it may be as unintended camp, rolling your eyes in amazement at its litany of misery and heaps of histrionics.
