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La Vie en Rose (film)

2007 French film directed by Olivier Dahan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

La Vie en Rose is a 2007 biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf, co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starring Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The UK and US title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song. The film is an international co-production between France, Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. It made its world premiere at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival in the main competition.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “La Vie en Rose (film)” as 2007 French film directed by Olivier Dahan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rose, film and French.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rose, film and French providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “La Vie en Rose (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.