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 PrintableVersion La vie en roseEven the sparrow has found a homeLA VIE EN ROSE All in French with English subtitles, La vie en rose is a biopic of the French singer Edith Piaf. Director Olivier Dahan briefly snapshots key moments from Piaf’s life that reveal her underprivileged upbringing as a sickly child, and then the change she underwent as she acquired both fame and fortune on the way to becoming a world-famous singer. While Piaf’s life story is interesting, the film possibly suffers as it comes across as a series of disjointed events that have been combined, causing a lack of the continuity that a well-shot film should have. In some ways this makes the final message of the film difficult to grasp since there is no obvious ongoing theme running throughout. The attempt to present a more hopeful ending to both the film and Edith Piaf’s life does little to mask the singer’s obvious discontentment with her life. At one point in the film someone comments to her something to the effect of, ‘You can’t do that’. Piaf laughs: ‘If I can’t do that what’s the point of being Edith Piaf?’ By the end, when we are presented with an old, infirm Piaf reflecting on her life, we might well ask, ‘What was the point?’ — has it not all turned out meaningless? In fact, there is only one moment near the end of the film where Piaf makes a substantial conclusion on life. In response to a reporter’s interview questions, Piaf’s answer was always aimer — to love. Whoever you are, whether old or young, the greatest thing is love. OB1© Evangelicals Now - August 2007 |
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