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'La Vien En Rose' Edith Piaf film

BinkieBaumont

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I felt a bit cheated when i saw this at the Cinema, I hoped it would show Edith and her relationships with the Nazis, during the occupation of Paris, it was all a bit vague...... and jumped back and forwards, i guess i'm rather old fashioned I like a begining, middle and end. all tied up together nicely, I don't realy feel the need to go to a cafe with friends afterwards and ask chums "What if?"
 

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ShortClara said:
I hated this film. HATED it. Amazing performance of Edith Piaf, but I thought the film making lacking. I don't think beating me on the head for 2+ hours is good film making. **SPOILERS**


By the end, I was glad she died, because that meant it was over! Now I love a good serious film - I do. But I didn't think it was an emotional roller-coaster at all - I thought it was like going to the dentist. They never let the audience up for air, to have a bit of happiness, a brief sadistic laugh, nothing. Even when she was in love, I knew it would end badly - KNEW it, so I couldn't even enjoy it! I didn't care about her at the end, I was so strung out, and that made me sad. When I think on something like "Saving Private Ryan" which made me cry and cry in the theatre... but I loved it all the same. But that film was a rollercoaster, instead of people hitting me on the head with a steel pipe for a long time and just die already Edith and let me out!! *sorry* - ahem. I would not wish this film on anyone but Guantanamo detainees suspected of terrorism.

No offense to anyone who liked it - really. I just think there are more deft ways of handling grim subject matter.

I mostly agree, although I never wished her to die. While I thought the acting, casting, sets, music, costumes and makeup were all outstanding, it was a depressing movie. Ms. Piaf must have known one happy day in her life--couldn't they have shown it? Even the scenes where she is having fun are sad: as a little girl, she forms an attachment to a woman she can't remain with; when she's grown, she takes up with a married man (does that ever go well?) and much of the time, she's drunk, obnoxious, or both. Enabling friends hop when she hollers.

It will be awhile before I want to listen to her music again.
 

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