La vie en rose (La Mome) France, UK, Czech Republic Italy 2007 by Olivier Dahan.
With Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pascal Greggory, Marc Barbé, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Allegret.
U n free and non-didactic portrait of French singer Edith Piaf
The film, set in France and Prague, traces the tragedies and joys of one of the legends of French song and international Edith Piaf. Born in the Paris suburbs, the star became famous from a young age. Her voice, characterized a thousand shades, he was able to go from bitter to sweet tones. Many of the misfortunes and negative events: accidents, coma, liver surgery, delirium tremens and a suicide attempt. Dahan's film to reconstruct one of his last public appearances in which it appears small and curved, with his hands deformed by arthritis and with thinning hair. Only one thing had remained unchanged and beautiful: her voice. The fact that the director has taken the initial inspiration for the film as a photograph of the singer and his music is not surprising at all. Confirmation, indeed, the cut in full cinematic work. From this point stands a tribute that rejects the caption is a strictly reconstruction biopic. The correct term is shown that, in addition to highlighting the artistic talent of Piaf, goes into the heart of his complex humanity. The director, while documenting a long time, has preferred to follow their ideas without being influenced by any particular person (friends, acquaintances) or readings taken. The choice to avoid cutting biographical develops through a double track. The fine performance by Marion Cotillard who runs away and hides any attempt imitative, subtly, the specific intent to give the performance a life of its own, away from buildings or external influences. Secondly, the director, aware of reductive critical readings, covers some of the main facts of his existence without regard to the exact chronology. Each fragment of life seems to be justified by the previous one. The meaning of things picks up slowly working of its parts. The many faces of the star emerge with a naturally sweet and smooth making it easy for a long movie.
Matteo Signa-mymovies.it
There are stories and life stories of great figures in human history. As there are life stories of artists who can be considered universal for their uniqueness of human strength which they know or have passed on through their artistic talent. That force sublime that only contain art and the artist, and interpretation of which can always and continuously stir the conscience,
to speak directly to the soul. There once was a girl, born at the beginning of last century and according to legend, bore her in a doorway, forced into a life of misery and poverty. His big blue eyes looked at that small part of the world of Belleville in Paris, the infamous streets, sidewalks where, for money, performing her natural singing talent. Large items do not go unnoticed, even more so when the song caught the attention of passersby on the street. And so Gassion Edith (Marion Cotillard), the encounter on the road with Louis Leplée (Gerard Depardieu), struck by His voice, marks a break with a past squalid and humiliating, to begin slowly to the transformation of the character in Edith Gassion "Vie en Rose" Edith Piaf. Piaf's voice comes across the ocean soon. America wins the fragile little woman, full of inner strength, love and passion. With his angry voice, but at the same time exciting and moving, singing life, love, hope. Sings Edith Piaf! He sings to his audience, for people who is waiting with trepidation in the audience, even when life does not save the terrible sorrow, will not save from the disease, dall'insopportabile physical pain. Who really was "La Vie en Rose"? What do we know della Piaf persona, leggenda nazionale della Francia ma anche del mondo intero? Cosa ha permesso veramente a questa donna goffa, impacciata, di sopravvivere e alla fine uscire dalla povertà e dalla sofferenza dei sordidi quartieri del dopo guerra parigino, fino alla conquista di quel riconoscimento di un messaggio di arte vera, inebriante, sul palcoscenico internazionale? La risposta questa volta la dà il regista di questo film straordinario: Oliver Dahan. Senza riproporre storicamente la vita di una Parigi inizio secolo, Dahan costruisce i luoghi dell’epoca attraverso una propria sensibilità, riuscendo a catturare un proprio sguardo nella costruzione della narrazione. La riuscita dell’opera è sorprendente. Dahan entra in quel mondo inspired by the Parisian streets of Belleville framed, from the brothels where they exit from the acrid smell of human sweat. With the installation of a comprehensive space-time events in the life of Edith Piaf, Dahan captures that side of the artist's life Piaf, unknown to the general public, where dramatic moments alternate with moments of happiness and success. Oliver Dahan builds as the identity of the great artist, an identity of glory and success, but also of common life, which depicts a battered Piaf, fragile, destroyed by the disease, which gained strength and life when communicating with the song with the world. Without doubt, the sharpness in the selection of Oliver Dahan have been able to coordinate the narrative key moments of the life of Piaf, the film has the distinction of a finished work in its entirety. The film is dressed with class, emotional tension, and artfully depicts the paradoxical fate of this woman, whose voice shook and the prosecution, listening, feeling strong. Marion Cotillard, Piaf in performance is absolutely shocking. Played the walk, mimic gestures of the artist, as she used to, that is an almost clownish. The interpretation of Piaf Marion Cotillard gives the ability to transcend the sublime character, and "being" Edith Piaf. This is the impression that Cotillard is able to convey, in a manner so convincing that one can not say it is not the Piaf, revealing and well-regarded actress of great talent. "La vie en rose" is a magical film, which shows the artist's soul Piaf, through the eyes of sensitive Oliver Dahan, who, with this latest work shows that it makes art on the big screen. Highly effective soundtrack that recalls the voice of that Piaf's timeless songs from Padam to Vie en Rose. A film full of tension and emotion in the story very nice gesture, but without falling into a lean and easy sentimentality.
Rosalinda Gaudiano - cinema4stelle.it
