La Vie En Rose: Special Edition (2 Disc Set) DTS

Synopsis

Winner of 2 2008 Academy Awards:

Best Actress - Marion Cotillard

Best Make-Up

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.

Special Features:

• 7 Deleted scenes
• Making of featurette 
• Edith Piaf in New York - Featurette
• Edith Piaf - That Object of Desire - Featurette

Sortie Audio

• Dolby Digital 5.1 (French)
• DTS 5.1 (French)
• Dolby Digital 2.0 (French)

Info Supplementaire

• Langues des sorties: English, French
• Longueur: 134 mins
• Certificat: 12
• Encodage: PAL
• No. de Disques: 2
• Ratio d'aspect: 1.85
• Format: DVD - Plastic
• Menus interactifs: Yes
• Selection des scenes: Yes