Piaf - Her Story, Her Songs
by Bernard Salzmann, George Elder
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Actor: ?dith Piaf, Raquel BittonDirector: Bernard Salzmann, George Elder
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Raquel Bitton
Cinematographer: Bernard Salzmann
Cinematographer: Christian Passuello
Producer: George Elder
Editor: Laurel Ladevich
Editor: Scott Dummler
Producer: Fred Fuchs
Producer: Gerald Prolman
Producer: Larry Polhill
Producer: Terrance Rogers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
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Movie Review: Piaf Performed by Raquel Bitton
Summary: 3 Stars
Raquel Bitton singing Piaf's songs and narrating the life of Piaf in between songs. Interview/dinner with people who knew and/or worked with Piaf made for an interesting CD.
Summary of Piaf - Her Story, Her Songs
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: NrThe life of the definitive French chanteuse, Edith Piaf, is celebrated in this concert/documentary hybrid, Piaf - Her Story...Her Songs. Raquel Bitton, who doesn't so much impersonate Piaf as try to channel the singer through her songs, tells tidbits from Piaf's life between faithful renditions of such classics as "Non je ne regrette rien" ("No Regrets"), "Bravo pour le clown", and of course "La vie en rose." Interspersed with this concert are scenes from a French restaurant, where Bitton has gathered an assortment of people who knew Piaf (including her son and musicians who performed with her) to reminisce about Piaf's tumultuous life and ferocious personality. The result of this cutting back and forth is a bit haphazard--the anecdotes tend to be gossipy and self-indulgent, while Bitton's sketchy narrative of the singer's life (delivered mostly in English) serves more to introduce the songs than to actually tell Piaf's biography. The songs are lovely (though fans may prefer recordings of Piaf herself to a recording of Bitton imitating Piaf) and there are some intriguing scraps of archival footage, including Piaf responding to reporters after being accused of murder and a glimpse of a melancholy Marlene Dietrich at Piaf's funeral. --Bret Fetzer
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