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La môme (2007) -- The life story of singer Edith Piaf.
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Writers:
Olivier Dahan (writer)
Isabelle Sobelman (writer)
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Release Date:
14 February 2007 (Belgium) more
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The extraordinary life of Edith Piaf more
Plot:
The life story of singer Édith Piaf. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 33 nominations more
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(64 articles)
Review: ‘Nine’
 (From The Flickcast. 1 January 2010, 10:00 AM, PST)

Marion Cotillard and Quentin Tarantino to receive Palm Springs honours
 (From Monsters and Critics. 31 December 2009, 1:50 PM, PST)

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Also Known As:
La vie en rose (UK) (USA) (new title)
Edith Piaf (Czech Republic)
Life in Pink (USA) (informal alternative title)
The Little Girl (USA) (literal English title)
The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf (International: English title)
Untitled Edith Piaf Project (France) (working title)
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Rated PG-13 for substance abuse, sexual content, brief nudity, language and thematic elements. (also extended edition)
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140 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Make-up could take up to five hours for Marion Cotillard when she played the older Edith Piaf. more
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Anachronisms: The caption that opens the Édith/Marcel Cerdan portion, which includes his fight, says "1947". Cerdan fought Tony Zale on 21 September 1948. more
Quotes:
Edith Piaf: In three months... that's right, in April, I'll be a hit at the Olympic. With a full house, we'll be flush.
Louise: Edith, your liver cells are not functioning normally. You've been ill. You need rest. It's serious.
Edith Piaf: I'm just 44. I'm not in the tomb yet.
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Soundtrack:
L'Hymne à l'amour more

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Is that really Édith Piaf's voice we hear singing in the movie?
Did Marion Cotillard do her own singing?
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51 out of 67 people found the following review useful.
This movie...it's a poem about a poet..., 27 June 2007
10/10
Author: Chernobog from Croatia

...a song about a singer.

I adore it. Nothing else is there to be said, really. The acting, all round, is sensational, but the lead, Marion Cotillard's portrayal of Edith Piaf, is beyond words. More astonishing even, I'd dare to say, than what Bruno Ganz did with Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (although Ganz had only a mass murderer and historical criminal to work with, while Cotillard was dealing with, pardon me for saying, the soul of an entire nation).

I would like to comment on the script. The little symbolic moments, full of grief, full of such a profound sadness...I have never seen this done so well. Certain elements of the story, a conversation or object, are only within the lasting of the film transformed from everyday, mundane stuff into everlasting symbols of affection, of redemption and personal torment.

You see, this is the strong point of the film - it tries to(and often it manages) make you cry because of her tough life, but at the end you are crying because of the good things that happened to her. They too, are over: Edith never even regrets the bad ones.

The music is a whole story on its own. I've loved Piaf for some years now, but, alas, I don't speak French, and now, at last, I have some context to place the songs into...and it breaks me. It really does.

I saw the movie yesterday, went home, and listened to Edith's albums for hours, and they meant so much...they spoke volumes.

Anyway, the direction is perfect, although there is one scene towards the end which has problems - it tells, for the very first time, of a rather important event in the much earlier years of the singer's life , and the event in question seems to be out of place, sort of neglected - as if it should have been dealt with an hour earlier. But this is only one tiny scene, and even it, in itself, is masterfully done. Everything else is flawless.

The cuts and the singing are blended brilliantly together. I was especially struck, which is strange, by the end credits: they are very unusual and touching for a movie which is this musical (find out why!).

Anyway, my deepest recommendations. See it, it is really excellent. It is dark and human and bright, and full of spectacular music.

It is the 20th century.

I fell in love with it.

You might too.

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