La Vie en Rose is a biopic about Édith Piaff. It is told as a sequence of montages unrelated in time. Unlike many films that use this technique, there is no wrapping narrative that explains the jumps. This is not a sequence of interconnected memories. Rather, it appears, the filmmaker made a standard biopic in standard narrative order: star as a child has traumatic experience, star gets foot in the door by chance, star struggles to adjust to changing tastes, star has problems with drug abuse, star abandons those who love star, star collapses on stage, star has comeback concert, star dies. I think they realized that they had done this, so decided to randomize the chronology to so that it would not be so apparent.
- J
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