La Vie En Rose Edith Piaf M4a
It’s June, rose blooming season. So let’s enjoy some beautiful roses, and since we can’t enjoy their visual splendor accompanied by their sweet smells, we’ll enjoy their sweet sounds in the forms of favorite “Rose” songs from the last hundred years. And right off the bat I concede that my bastardization of the famous Shakespeare quote “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2) in this post’s title mangles the original beyond logical comprehension.
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The Rose – Bette Midler
Performer: Edith PiafWriter: Edith Piaf; LouiguySlow Chante; French.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. Feb 15, 2016 - Genre: Soundtrack Date: 2007. Country: France Audio codec: MP3 Quality: 320 kbs. Playtime: 1:12:45. Edith Piaf – Heaven Have A Mercy. How a hymn to a love affair saw the tragedienne Edith Piaf, like her nation. So Piaf grabbed a piece of paper and dashed off “La Vie en rose” for her.
https://dannyashkenasi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/10-the-rose.m4aCan’t not start this rose themed medley without “The Rose”, which is arguably The Rose Song above all. It already sounded like a classic when it came out in 1979. I remember hearing it sung again and again at my high school’s musical auditions, music concerts and talent shows. There were those who would cattily slack the song’s lyrical conclusion (“Just remember in the winter – Far beneath the bitter snows – Lies the seed that with the sun’s love – In the spring becomes the rose”) by asserting that roses are cultivated by making cuttings, and are not grown from seeds. That became a common refrain of ridicule against the song among my high school peers. But of course in the wild, before mankind got their grubby cultivating hands on them, roses propagated by growing from seeds just like any other plant. Silly teenagers!
La Vie en Rose – Edith Piaf
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Descargar counter strike 1.6 supercomprimido 10mb. I’m sure there are those who would rank La Vie en Rose above The Rose as the #1 Rose song of the last hundred years. And I agree La Vie en Rose has a stronger claim on evergreen status than any other tune listed here. The problem with the song, for the sake of this article, is that the “rose” in La Vie in Rose more likely refers to the color pink than the flower. That doesn’t disqualify it from this countdown, but explains why Bette Midler gets pride of place before Edith Piaf. But only barely.
Most of these rose pics were taken in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, which boasts one of the largest collections of roses in North America.
A Rose by any Name – Blondie (featuring Beth Ditto)
https://dannyashkenasi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/2-03-a-rose-by-any-name.m4aSpeaking of pride, June is not only rose blooming season but also Pride Month. So to celebrate LGBTQ Pride, take in Blondie’s Deborah Harry dueting with the self-described “fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas” Beth Ditto:
If you’re a boy or if you’re a girl
I love you just the same
Wherever you go, all over the world
A rose by any name
I wouldn’t be surprised if this post is the first you ever hear of Blondie’s “A Rose by any Name” which of course neatly ties in to the featured Shakespeare quote as well as Queer Pride.
The next two Rose titled pop songs, for better or for worse, have been ubiquitous in popular culture, with every likelihood of sticking around in the public musical tapestry for years to come. Ample bass j.
There is a certain irony to the fact that no matter how many hard rockin’ testosterone struttin’ jams heavy metal and hair metal bands play, the song they will most likely be most remembered for is that one sad ballad that becomes the band’s biggest (if not only) hit. So it is with Poison’s “Every Rose has its Thorn”. Audio track coding restricts me from posting anything but a link to the YouTube video, so you must click on the title above to give a listen. Sorry for the inconvenience, but that’s just the way it goes sometimes. After all, every rose has its thorn, (yeah, it does).
A Kiss from a Rose – Seal
https://dannyashkenasi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/02-kiss-from-a-rose.m4aAll these years I thought Seal was singing about a kiss from a rose on the grave, imagining a grieving lover placing a rose on the snow covered grave of his lost love. This image of heartrending romanticism has been dashed by the realization, brought on by actually reading the lyrics of “A Kiss from a Rose” for this article, that Seal is singing about a “kiss from a rose on the grey”. Grey? Turns out the baroque lyrics are full of allusions to addiction, drugs and pills, with the reference to snow more likely describing cocaine than frozen precipitation. And thus crumbles my darkly romanticized view of the song.
A Kiss from a Rose on the Grave. Except in the song it’s not the grave after all, it’s the grey; and moreover, this is no rose but a tulip…
Dance of the Rose Maidens – Khachaturian
https://dannyashkenasi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/08-dance-of-the-rose-maidens.m4aMoving on to instrumental Rose compositions. From the world of classical music we turn to Khachaturian’s Dance of the Rose Maidens from the Ballet Gayaneh, which also gave us the very famous Sabre Dance. And I must of course include the track simply called “Rose”, from Titanic, the “highest selling primarily orchestral movie soundtrack ever”.
Rose – James Horner
https://dannyashkenasi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/04-rose.m4aAnd then there are all those musical theater Roses! Such a variety to choose from! Beginning with one of the most famous musical roses, the Second Hand Rose from Second Avenue made famous by Fannie Brice in 1921’s Ziegfield Follies and recreated by Barbra Streisand in the movie musical about Fannie Brice “Funny Girl”. The musical Bye Bye Birdie gives us two Rose songs, the electrically empowering “Spanish Rose” and the insipid “Rosie” (it really is an awful final song marring an otherwise totally winning, splendid musical, full of inane lyrics like “now my life is rosy since found my Rosie” glopped over a cloying nursery school melody – I hate it so much I refuse to share a recording). And in honor of Pride month I must give a shout out to Rocky Horror’s genderfluid pansexual “Rose Tints my World“.
Ultimately there is no denying the one two punch of musical roses, the binary star constellation of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy, both sung by the one, the big enchilada, literally the Mother of All Musical Theater Roses: Mama Rose herself. The first, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, is the big musical nervous breakdown freak out number at the end of Act One, sung by Mama Rose when she has been betrayed and deserted by one daughter, and the second is the big musical nervous breakdown freak out number sung by Mama Rose in the end of Act Two, sung by Mama Rose when she has been betrayed and deserted by the other daughter. Musical theater divas of the first order have torn into these supernovas of music theater throughout the ages. But whose versions to highlight? Which diva gets the bouquet? Ethel? Rosalind? Angela? Tyne? Bette? Bernadette? Patti? Barbra (reaching into the future)?
I give up. And will cheat by doing the Pride Month thing instead and tossing roses to all the many hundreds of thousands of gay men who have over the years gone full diva in piano bars, cabarets, living rooms and bath houses all over the world essaying their own best Mama Rose. I wouldn’t be surprised if more individual men than women have belted out these two divalicious numbers, even if to smaller audiences.
For “Mama’s Turn” I turn to Glee:
For “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, this clip from the movie The Fisher King (although I admit it borrows more from “Some People” than “Everything’s…”, but what the hey):
La Vie En Rose Canada
Jump to navigationJump to search| La Vie en Rose | |
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| Directed by | Olivier Dahan |
| Produced by | Alain Goldman |
| Written by | Isabelle Sobelman Olivier Dahan |
| Starring | Marion Cotillard Gérard Depardieu Sylvie Testud |
| Music by | Christopher Gunning |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Richard Marizy |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Picturehouse(US) |
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| 140 minutes[1] | |
| Country | France United Kingdom Czech Republic[2] |
| Language | French English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $86.3 million |
La Vie en Rose (literally Life in pink, French pronunciation: [la vi ɑ̃ ʁoz];[note 1]French: La Môme)[note 2] is a 2007 French biographicalmusical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starred Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The UK and US title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song.
Cotillard's performance earned her several accolades including the Academy Award for Best Actress — marking the first time an Oscar had been given for a French-language role — the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the César Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup, Costume Design, Film Music, four additional César Awards and grossed $86.3 million worldwide.
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Plot[edit]
The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. [note 3] The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, 'Non, je ne regrette rien'.
The film opens with Édith as a small child in 1918. Her mother stands across the alley singing, busking for change. Édith's mother writes to her child's father, the acrobat, who is fighting in the trenches of World War I battlefields, informing him that she is leaving Édith with her mother so she can pursue the life of the artist. Her father returns to Paris and scoops up a sick Édith, then in turn leaves the child with his own mother, who is a madam of a brothel in Normandy. Now living as a child in a brothel, surrounded by the often brutal and demeaning business of prostitution, Édith is taken under the wing of the women there, especially Titine, a young troubled redhead who becomes emotionally attached to the little girl. Titine sings to, plays with, and tenderly cares for Édith through travails including an episode of keratitis-induced blindness.
Years later, Édith's father returns for her. Despite anguished protests from both Titine and Édith, he takes the child away to join him as he works as a circus acrobat. As Édith is outside cleaning up after dinner one night, she watches a fire eater practicing, and in the flames sees an apparition of St Thérèse, who assures her that she will always be with her—a belief that she carries with her for the rest of her life.
When Édith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus after an argument with the manager and begins performing on the streets of Paris. During a lackluster performance of her father's contortionist skills while Édith holds a hat for coins, a passerby asks if Édith is part of the show and, with prompting by her father to 'do something' so the half-interested audience doesn't leave, she spontaneously sings 'La Marseillaise' with raw emotion, mesmerizing the street crowd.
Years later, a nightclub owner named Louis Leplée approaches Édith while she sings (and drinks) on the streets of Montmartre for supper money with her friend Mômone. He invites her to his club for an informal audition. Impressed, he hires her, after creating for diminutive Édith (1.47m in height) a stage surname of Piaf, a colloquialism for sparrow.
Soon, Leplée is shot dead, suspected by the police to be due to Édith's connections to the mafia through the pimp who has demanded a large portion of her street singing earnings. When Édith next attempts a show at a low grade cabaret, she is jeered and shouted off the stage by a hostile crowd. Things go from bad to worse when Mômone is forcibly taken away to a convent for girls on orders from her mother. Desperate, Édith turns to Raymond Asso, a songwriter and accompanist. Through harsh means, he enlivens her performances by teaching her to gesture with her 'great hands' while singing, and works with her on enunciation and other aspects of stage presence, including how to battle her initial fierce bouts of stage fright that almost prevent her from taking the stage for her first music hall performance.
While performing in New York City, Édith meets Marcel Cerdan, a fellow French national who is a boxer competing for the World Champion title. Though she quickly learns from him that he has a wife, who runs their pig farm while he's away, Édith tells Mômone that she is falling in love with Marcel. The affair that ensues (it begins shortly after he beats Tony Zale and becomes World Middleweight Champion), while supposedly secret, results in 'La Vie En Rose' being played for Marcel wherever he goes. The morning after Édith has persuaded Marcel to fly from Paris and join her in New York, she wakes up to his kiss. She joyfully hurries to get him coffee and her gift to him of a watch, while she mocks and exasperatedly shouts at her oddly subdued entourage as they listlessly stand around her apartment. They finally break the news to her that Marcel's plane crashed. Édith hysterically searches for the ghost of Marcel that was lounging on her bed just a few moments before, crying out the name of her lost lover.
The narrative bookends these scenes from Édith's middle life with repeated vignettes of an aged-looking Édith with frizzy red hair, being nursed and tended to. She spends much of her time sitting in a chair by the lakeside, and when she stands, she has the stooped posture and slowness of a much older person. Another set of fractured memories shows Édith with short curly hair, plastered to her face as though she is feverish, singing on stage and collapsing while she tries to sing, a moment when Édith herself realizes that her body is betraying her, when she is hosting a party at a Parisian bistro, and topples a bottle of champagne because of her developing arthritis, and to the severe morphine addiction that ultimately plays a large role in her demise, as she injects the drug with a young lover in her bedroom.
After her husband, Jacques Pills, persuades her to enter rehabilitation for her addiction, she travels to California with him, and the audience sees the sober but manic-by-nature Édith being driven around in a convertible, laughing, joking, teasing her compatriots and generally being the life of the party, until she takes the wheel and promptly drives into a Joshua tree. The hilarity is uninterrupted as Édith gets out and pretends to hitchhike—the whole episode appearing to be a metaphor for her lifelong frantic efforts to be happy and distracted by entertaining others, through all manner of disasters.
Years later, Piaf, now frail and hunched, squabbles with her entourage about whether or not she will be able to perform at the Olympia. No one but Édith thinks that she will be ready to attempt the feat, but she ultimately faces this reality herself. Then, a new songwriter and arranger shows up with a song, 'Non, je ne regrette rien', and Édith exclaims: 'You're marvelous! Exactly what I've been waiting for. It's incredible. It's me! That's my life, it's me.' She announces that she will indeed perform it at the Olympia.
Memories from prior to and during her last performance, when she collapses onstage, are interwoven through the film, foreshadowing the tragic end to a stellar but prematurely ended stage life. The memories appear to almost haunt Piaf. In one series, prior to what turns out to be her last performance, Édith is finally ready to go onstage after a series of delays, when she asks for the cross necklace that she always wears. As her staff rush away to get it, she sits and, in her quiet solitude, experiences more memories of her past, and after Édith puts on the retrieved cross and shuffles out onto the stage, the film presents more flashbacks as she is singing one of her signature songs, 'Je ne regrette rien.'
She relives a sunny day on a beach with her knitting, when an older Édith with an obvious stoop graciously answers the simple and polite questions of an interviewer: what is her favorite color? (blue), her favorite food? (pot roast), and then more poignant questions that she also answers without hesitation, again showing the longings of her life. If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be? 'Love.' To a young girl? 'Love.' To a child? 'Love.'
As though he is carrying a swaddled infant, Louis easily carries Édith, tiny and wasted away at the age of 47, into her bedroom and tucks her into bed, while the subtitle removes any illusions that this is other than the last day of her life. She is afraid. She says she cannot remember things, but has a disjointed series of memories of the kind of small moments that somehow define all our lives more than the 'big moments' do—scrambled and fragmentary as a dying person might experience—her mother commenting on her 'wild eyes,' her father giving her a gift of a doll, and thoughts of her own dead child, Marcelle.
The film ends with Édith performing 'Non, je ne regrette rien' at the Olympia.
Cast[edit]
- Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf
- Gérard Depardieu as Louis Leplée
- Sylvie Testud as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
- Jean-Pierre Martins as Marcel Cerdan
- Emmanuelle Seigner as Titine
- Pascal Greggory as Louis Barrier
- Catherine Allégret as Louise Gassion
- Jean-Paul Rouve as Louis Alphonse Gassion
- Clotilde Courau as Annetta Gassion
- Marie-Armelle Deguy as Marguerite Monnot
- Marc Barbé as Raymond Asso
- Caroline Raynaud as Ginou
- Denis Ménochet as Journalist in Orly
- Pavlína Němcová as American journalist
- Harry Hadden-Paton as Doug Davis
- Caroline Sihol [fr] as Marlene Dietrich
- Pauline Burlet as a young Édith Piaf
- Farida Amrouche as Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed
Production[edit]
Cotillard was chosen by director Olivier Dahan to portray the French singer Édith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose before he had even met her, saying that he noticed a similarity between Piaf's and Cotillard's eyes.[3] Producer Alain Goldman accepted and defended the choice even though distributors TFM reduced the money they gave to finance the film thinking Cotillard wasn't 'bankable' enough an actress.[4]
Four songs were entirely performed by 'Parigote' singer Jil Aigrot:[citation needed] 'Mon Homme' (My Man), 'Les Mômes de la Cloche' (The kids of the bell), 'Mon Légionnaire' (My legionnaire), 'Les Hiboux' (Owls) as well as the third verse and chorus of 'L'Accordéoniste' (The accordionist) and the first chorus of 'Padam, padam..'. Only parts of these last two songs were sung because they were sung while Piaf/Cotillard was fatigued and collapsed on stage. Apart from that, 'La Marseillaise' is performed by child singer Cassandre Berger (lip-synched by Pauline Burlet, who plays the young Édith in the film), and Mistinguett's 'Mon Homme' (My Man) and 'Il m'a vue nue' (He saw me naked) (sung in part by Emmanuelle Seigner) also appear. Recordings of Piaf are also used.
The film premiered at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.
Box office performance[edit]
In theaters, the film grossed US$86,274,793 worldwide – $10,301,706 in the United States and Canada and $75,973,087 elsewhere in the world.[5] In Francophone countries including France, Algeria, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia, the film grossed a total of $42,651,334.[6]
The film became the third-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States since 1980 (behind Amélie and Brotherhood of the Wolf).[7]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
The film received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 74% based on 149 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'The set design and cinematography are impressive, but the real achievement of La Vie en Rose is Marion Cotillard's mesmerizing, wholly convincing performance as Edith Piaf.'[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 based on 29 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.[9] Cotillard received widespread critical acclaim for her performance, with many critics citing it as the best performance of the year and one of the greatest acting performances of all-time. A. O. Scott of The New York Times, while unimpressed with the film itself, said 'it is hard not to admire Ms. Cotillard for the discipline and ferocity she brings to the role.'[10] Carino Chocano of the Los Angeles Times opined that 'Marion Cotillard is astonishing as the troubled singer in a technically virtuosic and emotionally resonant performance..' Richard Nilsen from Arizona Republic was even more enthusiastic, writing 'don't bother voting. Just give the Oscar to Marion Cotillard now. As the chanteuse Édith Piaf in La Vie en rose, her acting is the most astonishing I've seen in years.'[8]
Critic Mark Kermode of The Observer was less keen; while he felt there was much to applaud, there was also 'plenty to regret'.[note 4] Kermode agreed that the source material provided 'heady inspiration', and that Cotillard plays everything with 'kamikaze-style intensity', but thought the film lacking in structure and narrative, creating 'an oddly empty experience'.[11]
Accolades[edit]
Wins[edit]
Marion Cotillard won seven major Best Actress Awards for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose:
- The Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- The Golden Globe for Best Actress In a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
- The César Award (equivalent to the Oscars in France) for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- The Prix Lumière (equivalent to the Golden Globe in France) for Best Actress
- The BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- The Czech Lion (equivalent to the Oscars in the Czech Republic) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- The Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival
Other award wins include:
- The César for Best Production Design (Olivier Raoux).
- The César for Best Photography (Tetsuo Nagata).
- The César for Best Sound (Laurent Zeilig, Pascal Villard, Marc Doisne and Jean-Paul Hurier).
- The César for Best Costume Design (Marit Allen).
- The Academy Award for Best Makeup.
- The BAFTA Awards for Best Makeup, Costume Design and Film Music.
- The Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film.
- The Czech Lion for Best Film score.
Nominations[edit]
- Nominated for a further six Césars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing.
- Nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language at the BAFTAs.
- Nominated Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
- Nominated Satellite Award for Best Editing.(Richard Marizy)
- Nominated for 2008 Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score.
- Nominated for the Richard Attenborough UK Regional Film Award for Actress of the Year (Marion Cotillard).
Notes[edit]
- ^A literal translation of 'La Vie en Rose' is 'Life in Pink', a figurative reference to rose-colored glasses.
- ^La Môme refers to Piaf's nickname 'La Môme Piaf' (meaning 'baby sparrow, birdie, little sparrow')
- ^The audience ultimately learns that the events from the film are flashbacks from within Édith's own memory as she dies.
- ^A pun on Piaf's Non, je ne regrette rien (I don't regret anything).
References[edit]
- ^'LA MOME - LA VIE EN ROSE (12A)'. Icon Film Distribution. British Board of Film Classification. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^'La Vie en rose (2005)'. en.unifrance.org.
- ^'Piaf star Cotillard's career blooms with Oscar nom for 'La Vie En Rose''. The Canadian Press. 14 February 2008. Archived from the original on 19 February 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
- ^Secher, Benjamin (12 February 2008). 'Everything's coming up roses'. London: Benjamin Sesher, Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^'La Vie en rose (2007)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ^'La Vie en rose (2007) – International Box Office Results'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
- ^'Foreign Language, 1980-Present'. Box Office Mojo.
- ^ ab'La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ^'La Vie en Rose Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^'La Vie en rose: A French Songbird’s Life, in Chronological Disorder'. The New York Times. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2008.
- ^Kermode, Mark (24 June 2007). 'La Vie en Rose'. The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
External links[edit]
La Vie En Rose Music
- La Vie en Rose on IMDb
- La Vie en Rose at Box Office Mojo
- La Vie en Rose at Rotten Tomatoes
- La Vie en Rose at Metacritic
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