The life of Edith Piaf was filled personal highs and devastating lows. “La Vie en rose” shows it to us through it’s truly enthralling and heart-breaking presentation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Detaching Piaf's wildly contradictory life from the larger realities of French social life weakens the film and makes her own behavior somewhat arbitrary.

| Feb 14, 2021

Long for all but the true fan, containing the obligatory musical stations-of-the-cross, this film isn't Ray, but it isn't bad.

| May 21, 2020

A thoroughly gruelling, yet highly engrossing biopic of the legendary French singer Edith Piaf.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2020

Despite its story of suffering that comes in unceasing waves, La Vie en Rose may be the most hopeful film yet made about the grueling rigor of living.

| Jan 28, 2020

In La Vie En Rose,we get to witness a rare and beautiful thing - an artist baring her soul and creating a performance for the ages.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Even if you're like me and find most musical biopics depressingly formulaic, you might think Oliver Dahan's Edith Piaf movie is a slight cut above.

| Sep 12, 2010

The French, as is widely known, adore suffering. That's why they love Leonard Cohen, Bud Powell, and Jim Thompson.

| May 5, 2010

No regrets for Cottilard's dedication, but plenty for the clichéd pap of the biopic genre

| Aug 27, 2009

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Quite simply, is the best movie I have seen all year.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 25, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Marion Cotillard's Oscar win? Totally justified...Many questions remain for those of us unschooled in Piaf lore. I was confused by some of the causes even as I felt the emotional effects, thanks to deep performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2008

Much like the colorful life of the film's subject, La Vie en Rose explores the strange and emotional life of torch singer Edith Piaf and gives Marion Cotillard an Oscar for her tremendous performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2008

Cotillard joins Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) in so completely embodying a role that it seems more possession than performance.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Here is what made the woman tick, if you need facts, find them in a book, if you want to understand her soul, see this film

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2008

Acaba funcionando mais como atestado do talento de sua protagonista, Marion Cotillard, do que como um tributo digno da magnífica cantora que esta interpreta.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2008

This isn't the first time Piaf's life has been brought to the screen and it probably won't be the last, but Cotillard makes this particular version stand apart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2008