Thursday, January 11, 2007

Piaf biopic to premiere at the Berlinale


One of the season's big events will doubtless be the new bio-pic of the classic chanteuse Edith Piaf, called "La môme" or, for English speakers, "La vie en rose", which will premiere at the upcoming Berlinale festival. I saw a long trailer of this at Cannes, and the least you can say is that it looks lush. Olivier Dahan is credited as both writer and director. If bells are ringing, this is probably because he is the director of the spectacular "Crimson Rivers II". So we can reasonably expect a pretty big movie experience, not least because the cast includes Gerard Depardieu, Sylvie Testud and Jean-Paul Rouve. The singer herself is played by the suitably waif-like Marion Cotillard (with Jil Aigrot some of the actual singing).

"La vie en rose" will open in France and Germany in February, with other European countries later (and the UK in the autumn). To see the short trailer and more details en français, visit TFM distribution.

Edith Piaf on iTunes UK:
Edith Piaf - The Very Best of Édith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien

Edith Piaf on iTunes US:
Edith Piaf - The Voice of the Sparrow - The Very Best of Édith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Check this out! => http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxl9x_la-mome

It seems incredible! ;-)