A dreamlike, impressionistic biography of the singer affectionately known as “The Little Sparrow,” “La Vie en Rose” flutters around the various stages of French national icon Edith Piaf’s eventful ...

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely ...

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Understandably there is both widespread curiosity about the lives of well-known people, including the admirable and the less than admirable, and the desire among artists to produce something that ...

If nothing else, “La Vie en Rose” gets across one message about the great Edith Piaf: She was a big pile of crazy. A drag queen waiting to happen, Piaf was the French equivalent of Judy Garland, if ...

Zaho de Sagazan has become a shooting star of contemporary French pop music by reimagining the chanson genre for a younger, more dance-oriented audience. By Thomas Rogers His dozens of songs included ...

A new film — as well as several recently published books — have introduced a younger generation of French citizens to Edith Piaf, the singer nicknamed "the Sparrow." She was only 47 when she died of ...

As a teenager living in Paris, Carolyn Burke would come home from school, climb to her small room at the top of a seventh-floor walkup and turn on the radio. Exhausted from the climb as well as her ...

Best known for her Oscar-winning role in the Edith Piaf biography "La Vie en Rose," Marion Cotillard returns to the big screen this month with a starring role in the Christopher Nolan thriller ...

BERLIN – Berlin’s annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf – part of a strong French contingent at this year’s event. Olivier Dahan’s “La Vie en ...

Most musical biopics offer the filmgoer two things, one good, one not. You’ll likely get a fervent, juicy Oscar-time portrayal from whoever is playing Ray Charles, or Buddy Holly, or Johnny Cash, or ...