La vie en rose
(DVD)

Special feature: "Stepping into character", with behind-the-scenes character development sequences for the film, including interviews with Dahan and Cotillard and footage of Piaf in performance (7 min).

Director of photography, Tetsuo Nagata ; editor, Richard Marizy ; music, Christopher Gunning ; costumes, Marit Allen ; production designer, Olivier Raoux.

Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé ... [et al.].

A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she makes her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems.

DVD format ; region 1 ; Dolby 5.1 ; aspect: 2.35 anamorphic.

In French, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.