Valeria Moreau Movies
Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a complete unknown -- by cabaret proprietor Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu). The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life -- such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean-Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid-'40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the '50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations -- dazzling audiences in the process. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, (more)
- 2003
Eric Guirado's Quand Tu Descendras du Ciel (When You Come Down to Earth) is a drama about homelessness. A gifted but down on his luck farmer, Jerome (Benoit Giros), travels to the city in order to find a paying job. He is eventually paired with van driver Lucien (Jean-François Gallotte), who drives around the city picking up the homeless, the unemployed, and the indigent and evicting them from the town. Jerome eventually questions the morality of his actions, while also building a tentative relationship with his estranged sister. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Benoit Giros, Serge Riaboukine, (more)
