Edith piaf movie biography of marilyn manson
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La Vie En Rose Review
French beauty Marion Cotillard adopts a waddle and a throaty drawl for this biopic of eccentric singer Edith Piaf, who apparently had a life packed with more scandal and incident than a hundred Rays or Walk The Lines, even if some of the beats — impoverished childhood, drug addiction — sound familiar.
The settings are certainly colourful: she grows up in a whorehouse and a circus.
Edith piaf movie biography of marilyn manson
As Piaf seeks her fortune, the scene shifts to the smoky bars of s Paris, where she hits the big time and the bottle (she’s barely shown sober from this point on).
Sex, drugs and booze make for plenty of drama as Piaf’s over-indulgence raises eyebrows and causes conflict with friends and associates.
It’s also refreshing to see a physically awkward heroine whose path to success is peppered with both tragedy and faux pas: this is no wish-fulfilment drama. And Cotillard puts in a passionate performance, stooping and squashing her face into an impressively faithful take on Piaf that is