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Post by pauliepoos on Jun 11, 2007 15:32:00 GMT
I love musical biopics, and I love French films, and I love films with good ageing makeup, so what better than a French musical biopic of someone who starts off fresh and ends up very haggard?
I saw the trailer for La Vie En Rose today and it looks stunning. I am very, very excited.
There are so many great French actresses who should be destined for worldwide success, but part of me is glad when they stick to foreign language and arthouse films, as they stay a well kept secret.
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Post by David Hunter on Jun 11, 2007 16:42:28 GMT
I too am very excited by this and so far I've only seen the poster for it in Radio Times!
I saw the stage version of 'Piaf' some years ago. Elaine Paige playing the young songbird to haggard old crone. Funnily she managed the latter with more success.
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Post by Nicholas on Jun 11, 2007 22:27:49 GMT
I really have to see this, and I hardly ever go to the pictures any more for fear of running amok up and down the aisle confiscating noisy sweets, drinks and popcorn, and decapitating talkers. Hell might generally be other people, but all seven circles join together at the Showcase. www.lavieenrosemovie.co.ukI recently had an inexplicable I-Tunes disaster where I managed to delete my entire library. Call me a Big Old Gay, but Piaf was the first CD I put back. I can't get out of the house without hearing A Quoi Ca Sert L'Amour.
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Post by David Hunter on Jun 11, 2007 23:17:23 GMT
Just out of interest, is it 'In French With English Subtitles'? I can't work that out and the trailer doesn't show any dialogue, although she is singing in English.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jun 12, 2007 6:32:10 GMT
I believe so. It's like when they started advertising Amelie, and the only dialogue in the entire trailer was the "Amelieeeeee" at the very end.
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Post by jerriblank on Jul 6, 2007 16:54:29 GMT
Ooh am looking fwd to seeing this at the weekend.
Gerard Depardieu is in it - anyone know if he 'gets it out' as per usual?
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Post by David Hunter on Jul 9, 2007 11:59:59 GMT
I saw it at the weekend and really enjoyed it. Gerard Depardieu is hardly in it long enough to get anything out. I was alarmed to see his 'companion' in the movie had my 'look' from the late 80s. Pin set wave and all.
It's very sad and jumps back and forth in time, I think to show that even though Edith 'makes it', she never finds happiness and to show the irony of the title.
It got a round of applause when it finished.
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Post by Adrian on Mar 9, 2008 19:12:11 GMT
It is a very, very good film, but I found the jumping back and forward in time a little too distracting. It made Marion Cottilard shine - she really is fantastic - as she was the only 'constant' throughout the film. We didn't really get to know the other characters, and I'm still a little confused on the narrative.
That said, the music and styling were lavish and stunning.
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Post by francopopfille on Mar 9, 2008 20:02:30 GMT
I got the DVD once I came back from Paris, Marion Cotillard was all over the place for winning at the Oscars and the Césars. It's a very good film, Marion is fantastic and it's a really lovely-looking film but I did think it was a bit selective in the biography. Obviously to fit into time constraints it has to be, but it kind of glossed over some of the less complimentary bits eg: Leplée's murder was glossed over very quickly. I think more of the daughter subplot would have been interesting . That said, the scene they ended with was absolutely perfect, a great way to end. And it is an *incredibly* French film.
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Post by pauliepoos on Mar 9, 2008 20:14:31 GMT
I was watching Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles this morning, and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard actually says the line "Je ne regret rien".
Even though I started the thread, I never came back to it to say what I thought. I agree with Adrian - the period shifts were confusing, but it was totally held together by Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard's performance. She was flawless, even if the film wasn't.
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Post by mcqueen on May 3, 2008 20:27:22 GMT
I just saw this last night. I enjoyed it but I hadnt a clue what was going on half the time. The gorgeous boxer was lovely but I couldnt figure out who he was when she met him for dinner in New York- had we seen him already?
And have to sat Titine really is the best name for a French whore at the turn of the century.
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