Edith Piaf was born Edith Giovanna Gassion on December 19, 1915, in Ménilmontant, one of the poorer districts of Paris. The troubled life of the French  songbird,  had enough drama to fill a dozen movies. By the age of seven, she was touring with her father, a circus acrobat, throughout Western Europe.  

Olivier Dahan’s homage to the woman who famously regretted nothing is absolutely littered with evidence to the contrary.  La Vie en Rose tracks Piaf from her infancy to her death, continually alternating between an account of her youth and rise to fame and her last years. Marion Cotillard, lip-syncing Piaf's songs and digging into her soul with gale-force urgency, gives a performance for the ages.

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Piaf had come to the attention of Louis Leplée, a Paris night-life figure who booked her into the Gerny's club. Struck by the force of her voice, Leplée took the young singer under his wing and groomed her to become his resident star act. He renamed her "La Môme Piaf" .  

As an interpretive singer, Piaf was at the height of her powers during the mid-'50s, even in spite of all her health woes. A voice like hers comes along perhaps once in a century. In 1961, though nearly unable to stand, Piaf appeared at the Paris Olympia, and within eighteen months (1963), she was dead of cancer.

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