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Article: 'La Vie en Rose': Edith Piaf's encore.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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Byline: Peter Rainer Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor
The great French singer Edith Piaf, who died at 47 in 1963, gets the biopic treatment in "La Vie En Rose." Cross-cutting back and forth across the decades, writer-director Olivier Dahan takes in practically her entire life. However painful that life might have been for Piaf, it's almost criminally suited to the movies.
It's all here - heartbreak, passion, murder, acclaim, abandonment. Although Piaf's life has its legendary side, there was apparently no need to embellish the record. If anything, Duhan had to pare down the events.
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