La Vie en Rose (2007)
La Môme
Music, Drama • 2h 20m
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé, Caroline Silhol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet, Élisabeth Commelin, André Penvern, Marie-Armelle Deguy, Valérie Moreau, Marc Gannot, Jean-Paul Muel, Nathalie Dorval, Caroline Raynaud, Christophe Odent, Harry Hadden-Paton, Cylia Malki, Édith Le Merdy, Laurent Olmedo, Denis Ménochet, Josette Ménard, Dominique Paturel, Nicholas Pritchard, William Armstrong, Aubert Fenoy, Mario Hacquard, Agathe Bodin, Chantal Bronner, Olivier Cruveiller, Ashley Wanninger, Laurent Schilling, Dominique Bettenfeld, Alban Casterman, Sébastien Tavel, Nicole Dubois, Martin Janis, Eric Franquelin, Marc Chapiteau, Maureen Demidof, Farida Amrouche, Pierre Peyrichout, Liliane Cebrian, Paulina Němcová, Jean-Jacques Desplanque, Alain Figlarz, Nathalie Cox, Pierre Derenne, Emy Lévy, Laura Stainkrycer, Lucie Březovská, Věra Havelková, Jan Kuželka, Jan Filipenský, Mathias Honoré, Martin Sochor, Lenka Kourilova, Diana Stewart, Robert Paturel, Olivier Raoux, Philippe Bricard, Jaroslav Vízner, Nicolas Simon, Pascal Mottier, Thierry Gibault, Garrick Hagon, Vladimír Javorský, Fabien Duval, Rodolphe Saulnier, Fedele Papalia, Pier Luigi Colombetti, Zdena Herfortová, Olivier Carbone, Laurence Gormezano, Christophe Kourotchkine, Robert Nebřenský, Jaromír Janeček, Christopher Gunning, Jil Aigrot, Marek Vašut
About the film
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
- Alternative Titles
- The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose, La Môme
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
More Music on Blu-ray
Directors: Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang
"Sing-Along Edition" not included on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray, only available on Netflix Streaming
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Director: Damien Chazelle
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
US Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray re-release announced with Dolby Vision, a new exclusive bonus, and the previously retailer pre-order bonus-exclusive/Hong Kong-exclusive bonus interviews in HD
Italy Eagle Pictures has DV, better encode, and no brightness shifts compared to Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray for the original Dolby Atmos mix
Hong Kong Panorama 4K Blu-ray has two interviews available in HD that are SD everywhere else and only included as retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus DVDs with the US Blu-ray
Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal UHD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Shout Factory Blu-ray
Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.
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