QUOTE(Soxy @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 02:23 PM)
I saw La Vie en Rose yesterday, it's a biopic of French singer Edith Piaf. I feel like if I had known more about her before going into the movie I would have enjoyed it a lot more. She lead a pretty interesting life here's a brief summary:
Her father was a circus performer, but who then had to leave to fight in WWI. During that time she was left with her mother, who was a drunk and didn't care for her. Her father returns and leaves Edith with his mother who runs a brothel. For the next bit of her life Edith is raised by prostitutes. She gets sick, goes blind, the prostitutes take her to a shrine to St. Theresa, whom she prays to, Edith's sight is restored. Her father comes back, takes her and she grows up travelling with the circus. Her father leaves the circus to become a street performer, and Edith sings with him in their street act. She has a kid who dies of meningitis. She is later discovered, becomes a cabaret singer (only after dating a pimp who tries to force her into prostitution). Her boss/mentor on the cabaret circuit is murdered by the mob (and her pimp boyfriend is suspected to be involved as is Edith). By this time she has a large drinking problem. She then becomes a proper singer, she comes to America, becomes a huge success. She meets a world champion french boxer (who is married) and they fall in love. She calls him desparate to fly to America to be with her, he does, but the plane crashes and he is killed. She gets in a car accident and becomes addicted to morphine. She died pretty early and looking really awful.
The movie was well done--but it dragged on a bit. But the music was amazing! I had never heard of Piaf, and the singing was just incredible. I loved it.
Wow.
You'd think someone would have made a country music song about that plot by now.