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Directed by | Olivier Dahan |
Produced by | Alain Goldman |
Written by | Isabelle Sobelman Olivier Dahan |
Starring |
Marion Cotillard Gérard Depardieu Sylvie Testud |
Music by | Christopher Gunning |
Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
Edited by | Richard Marizy |
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Légende Films
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Distributed by | Picturehouse (US) |
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Running time
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140 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French English |
Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $86.3 million |
La Vie en Rose (French pronunciation: [la vi ɑ̃ ʁoz];French: La Môme) is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starred Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The English title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song.
Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress — marking the first time an Oscar had been given for a French-language role — the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the César Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup, Costume Design, Film Music and five César Awards.
The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, "Non, je ne regrette rien".