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Article: 'La Vie en Rose'.(Movie review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Byline: Steven Rea
Most music biopics follow a familiar arc, and in some ways Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en Rose" appears no different: a childhood of pain and poverty, false steps and shaky beginnings, a mentor or two, wild times on the road, discovery, debauchery, success, fame, death.
But this brilliant account of the life of Edith Piaf _ the French songbird, born of the streets and the brothels, who became a cultural icon for a nation _ visits the usual benchmarks, juggles them around, emphasizes sharp detail over seismic events, and delivers the portrait of a life that is vividly, explosively real.
Populated with whores and boxers, thugs and ...