History Film / LaVieEnRose

* AdaptedOut: Some important parts of Edith's life were scrapped from the movie :

* AdaptedOut:
** Edith's life during WorldWarII and her father's death were scrapped from the movie.
** Edith's real life MayDecemberRomance with Théo Sarapo in her final years is not featured as well.

** Edith's life during WorldWarII was scrapped from the movie.

* TemporaryBlindness: Edith becomes blind because of her keratitis. She recovers some time after a pilgrimage on the grave of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Edith and her best friend, Simone Berteaut (nicknamed "Mômone", played by Sylvie Testud).

** Edith's life during WorldWarII is not featured.

** Edith's real life MayDecemberRomance with Théo Sarapo is not featured as well.

** Edith's life during WorldWarII.
** Edith's real life MayDecemberRomance with Théo Sarapo is not featured.

* AdaptedOut: Edith's real life MayDecemberRomance with Théo Sarapo is not featured.

* WorldWarOne: Edith's father fought in the trenches.

* TheUnseen: Théo Sarapo (Edith's last husband) is barely mentioned at the end.

* AdaptedOut: Edith's MayDecemberRomance with Théo Sarapo is not featured.

* AdaptedOut: There is no appearance nor mention of Théo Sarapo, Edith's last husband and co-singer.

* RapidAging: At the end of her life at age 47, Edith looks like she's in her 70's or more, because of her accidents, depression, chronic fatigue, alcohol and drug abuse.

* TheScapegoat: In 1936, Edith is wrongly accused of having killed Louis Leplée, her first manager. The police accusation doesn't last long but she's booed for some time.

* IdleRich: How Edith mostly behaves.

* AnachronismStew: Edith's song "La Foule" is juxtaposed over the applauding crowd in 1936. The song was created in 1957.

The film's narrative structure is a largely [[AnachronicOrder non-linear series of key events]] from the life of Edith Piaf, many of which the audience ultimately learns are evoked as {{flashback}}s from within Edith's own memory as she dies. Despite the fractured narrative approach, the film is anchored at the beginning by predominance of elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death.

''La Vie en Rose'' (French title : ''La Môme'') is a 2007 romanticized {{biopic}} about the glorious and tragic life of French singer Music/EdithPiaf. It stars MarionCotillard in the leading role, for which she won the [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for best actress. It also became one of the only French films to win more than one Oscar, the other being for makeup.

''La Vie en Rose'' (French title : ''La Môme'') is a 2007 romanticized {{biopic}} about the successful and tragic life of French singer Music/EdithPiaf. It stars MarionCotillard in the leading role, for which she won the [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for best actress. It also became one of the only French films to win more than one Oscar, the other being for makeup.

* CircusBrat: Edith, once her father reclaimed her.

''La Vie en Rose'' (French title : ''La Môme'') is a 2007 {{biopic}} about the successful and tragic life of French singer Music/EdithPiaf. It stars MarionCotillard in the leading role, for which she won the [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for best actress. It also became one of the only French films to win more than one Oscar, the other being for makeup.

* RapidAging: At the end of her life at age 47, Edith looks like she's in her 70's or more, because of depression, chronic fatigue, alcohol and drug abuse.

* TheAlcoholic:
** Louis Gassion, Edith's father.
** Edith herself.