La Vie En Rose

http://www.edithpiafmovie.com/

Watched the movie in a pretty mini cinema (means the screen is big and seats are about 100), only 1 time slot in a day..

A biograph of the life of Edith Piaf, a legend singer in France. I was expecting a lot of singing and it has, not in a tremendous amount as compare to a musical one.

Would you say is a typical drama in her life: poverty town without mother, bought up at a night club and suffered from sickness, trauma....

The movie was not presented in a straight time-line but different flash back from different places and occasion. I got a bit confusion somehow with people such as the manager and the company and also the partners. But that's not important as the movie was focus on her characters and fate other than anything straight forward.

The actress, Marion Cotillard, possibly will get an award as she shaved off her eye-brows and acted from young to old with the long fully stunned shock scene that made your heart twisted after the tragedy..

The story reminded me one of the singer legend in Hong Kong - Anita Mui, though her life wasn't that dramatic as Piaf (sure there's some movie elements added), and Anita was more health then her perhaps..

Piaf picked one of the songs from the solider with theme on 'No regret'. That's possibly what she had been living for.

further readings:
http://www.oui-blog.com/zha/archives/002590.html