Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

"La Vie en Rose" is the biography of the French singer Édith Piaf who was regarded as France's national diva, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars.In this movie we the outstanding interpretation of Marion Cotillard (Won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role), who plays as Edith Piaf and I think that this interpretation of her was her best and I liked it very much. I also liked the interpretation of Gérard Depardieu who plays as Louis Leplée (he gave to Edith Piaf her nickname as La Môme Piaf = The Little Sparrow) a close friend of Edith Piaf who helped her at her start as singer.Finally I think that "La Vie en Rose" is a really good Biography movie that shows us from what difficulties Edith Piaf passed to become the singer we know today. With this movie you will understand how difficult was that and you will feel all her emotions and that was another one reason which I liked the interpretation of Marion Cotillard because she makes you feel all that emotions.

From 2007, La Vie en Rose is the story of the great Edith Piaf, a little woman with a huge voice, a huge soul, and huge eyes, who transcended her beginnings and became an international star.Marion Cotillard is Piaf, and what a magnificent job she does - ethereally beautiful in sections, she creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman who loved and sang and lived with great passion but in the end was her own worst enemy due to drugs and alcohol. Like so many people, she became addicted to painkillers after an accident, and both her parents are depicted as alcoholics. I can only describe the end of the film as shattering and heartbreaking due to Cotillard's fantastic acting.That's the performance - now to the movie. A life like Piaf's isn't easy to get into a couple of hours, even a couple of hours plus like this one, so events in her life are skipped or go by very quickly. Director Olivier Dahan moves from the end of Piaf's life to the beginning and the middle throughout, and in my opinion, he does it expertly. What's not so expert is the hurried way some of the incidents are presented, for instance, the murder of Leplee (Gérard Depardieu) - you would have to know Piaf's life to follow what happened in those scenes.Also, the reappearance of certain characters after many years had passed - one look at the message board tells you that many viewers didn't know who they were. I'm a complete snob and I admit it, so why people thought the older blond woman who approaches Piaf and raves about her work was Marilyn Monroe is beyond me. Okay, it wasn't the best Marlene Dietrich I've ever seen, but she had her hair like Dietrich's, she was obviously a mature woman, everyone is so reverential -- if you think people were reverential toward Marilyn Monroe like that in those days, think again.All in all, I found the film excellent, despite incidents and relationships (Yves Montand, and the fact that her best friend Momone was actually a half-sister) being omitted. I need to also add that Pauline Burlet, who was the 10-year-old Edith, was absolutely beautiful in the role.Highly recommended for the story and for Piaf's incredible voice, heard in most of the songs. Cotillard performs "Frou Frou" and Jil Aigrot does two numbers, the truncated "Padam" and "L'Accordéoniste."

Well, this was just a giant chore. Marion Cotillard does her best and it's a very impressive transformation on her part, stripping away all of her elegance to dive into this character, but I've rarely seen a film so miserably directed. Olivier Dahan takes what must have been an interesting life and somehow turns it into two of the most brutally trying hours I've had in my life. I was so tempted to throw in the towel on this one many times, but was determined to stick it out.Unfortunately it never got better and things just became more melodramatic and less and less interesting. The structure is all over the place, jumping from time to time (to some other time, I think?) with no reason or rhythm. The whole thing is absolutely incomprehensible, to the point where I didn't know who half the characters were or what stage of her life we were at or what was even going on half the time. Absolutely ridiculous. Worse, they take this person and turn her into such a loathsome creature, there wasn't a moment where I was even interested in her.It felt like they were so desperate to bring out sympathy or empathy from the audience, but it was such a miserably hollow experience the whole way through. I love Cotillard to death and the physical transformation is impressive, but I can't praise her performance too much if I never even cared about this dreadful person for the entire two hours that I was forced to sit through her wretched life. A good physical work, but I was never able to feel anything.

Existence. As puzzle. Dark pieces. Gray childhood. Music as Jacob ladder. Pendulum from dizzy heights to abysses. A honest story about success and its harsh price. Lights, public and horrible night. Death as circle and love as pray. Result - a movie, special movie behind cages or traps. Sketch of a brilliant woman and her wars. Nothing forced. Nothing artificial, pink or fake. And the merit is, in great measure, work of Marion Cotillard. Which is in perfect place, with precise art of balance of feelings, gestures and expression. A impressive Piaf. Bricks for role - the truth in pure form. The film may be extraordinary, spectacular, sad, original or masterpiece. But important is only the crumb after its end. Not presentation of a life, not homage of a great artist. Only clay of a house. And the traces of a silhouette. Natural, young Cotillard is Piaf.