Monday, February 16, 2015

February 16 - La Vie En Rose

Today’s  movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on February 16. Watch it tonight and enjoy. SPOILER ALERT!

LA VIE EN ROSE  

On February 16, 1959 [00:43 to 2:29] Edith Piaf, famous French chanteuse, collapses while singing in New York City. Edith was born to a street performer mother, but at age 4 her father took her to be raised by his mother, who ran a bordello in Paris. Edith became the pet of the girls who worked there. After several years her acrobat father returned for her and she sang while he performed acrobatics in the street. Edith is hired by Louis Leplee a nightclub owner as a singer and in spite of his murder, she gradually with the help of songwriter Raymond Asso becomes a well known and popular performer. Edith begins an affair with Marcel Cerdan, a famous boxer and is devastated when he is killed in an airplane crash. She later becomes a drug addict and dies of cancer at the young age of 47.

The date is given in the film at 1:00

Director - Olivier Dahan

Producer - Alain Goldman

Screenplay - Isabelle Sobelman and Olivier Dahan

Awards – Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress Oscar and the film won the Best Makeup Oscar. The film was also nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards

Released – Fenruary 8, 2007

Runtime – 2 hours 20 minutes

Starring –

Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf
Gérard Depardieu as Louis Leplée
Sylvie Testud as Mômone (Simone Berteaut)
Jean-Pierre Martins as Marcel Cerdan
Emmanuelle Seigner as Titine
Pascal Greggory as Louis Barrier
Catherine Allégret as Louise Gassion
Jean-Paul Rouve as Louis Gassion
Clotilde Courau as Anetta Gassion
Marie-Armelle Deguy as Marguerite Monnot
Marc Barbé as Raymond Asso
Pavlína Němcová as American journalist
Harry Hadden-Paton as Doug Davis
Caroline Sihol as Marlene Dietrich


Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.




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