Movie Review | 'La Vie en Rose': A French Songbirdâs Life, in Chronological Disorder
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âLa Vie en Roseâ shows that we Americans donât have a monopoly on singers and composers who emerge from traumatic childhoods, battle drug addiction, pursue difficult love affairs and win the hearts of millions.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Art closely follows life in a new  Russian film about a hermitic monk with a guilty past played by  a 1980s Russian rock singer who shunned society after a  religious transformation.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Film: For her new tennis-themed romantic comedy, Americaâs sweetheart Kirsten Dunst had to get in touch with her assertive side.
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Dito Montiel's autobiographical tale is so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it.
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A fascinating blend of musical, melodrama and feminist fairy tale, âLaaga Chunari Mein Daagâ shows Bollywoodâs moral universe in transition.
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In âThe Man of My Life,â the French director Zabou Breitman and her screenwriting partner AgnÃ¨s de Sacy examine male bonding from a feminine perspective.
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A Paris court has ruled that an acclaimed new film by the director of Amelie is not French enough to vie for French prizes. Jean-Pierre Jeunet&#39;s A Very Long Engagement, a French story filmed in French, has drawn rave reviews.
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Having tapped into reserves of great love or shocking hubris, the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira revisits Luis BuÃ±uelâs classic with âBelle Toujours.â
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âLa Vie en Rose,â âPersepolis,â âThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly,â âLa Graine et le Muletâ and âUn Secretâ are the nominees for the CÃ©sars, Franceâs version of the Academy Awards, as best picture. âLa Vie,â about the singer Edith Piaf, led with 11 nominations, including one for Marion Cotillard, above, who plays Piaf, for best actress. The CÃ©sars will be awarded in Paris on Feb. 22.
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French Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose, wins the most Baftas including best actress for Marion  Cotillard while Atonement wins best picture
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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A film about former French President  Francois Mitterrand and another about a German resistance  fighter executed by the Nazis highlight a trend for filmmakers  to use biographies to tell larger stories.
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In his third feature, Darren Aronofsky tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors.
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How do you transpose the life of an American cultural icon who transformed American popular music into a compelling, streamlined biopic?
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The line between fact and clichÃ© has always been rather tenuous when it comes to movies about famous musicians, considering that so many have tread the same self-destructive path.