La Vie en Rose

Wikipedia: "The film presents a fractured and largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. Although scenes often jump back and forth across decades, parts of her childhood take up much of the first part, and the movie ends with her death, and the performance of what is perhaps her signature song, Non, je ne regrette rien."

Slant Magazine: "Edith Piaf's tidal emotional vulgarity and brutish commitment to the most sentimental chansons is captured accurately and even irresistibly in La Vie En Rose, an epic, intuitive exploration of her hard life and times. In recent years, audiences have endured a deadening heap of biopics that have either betrayed or exploited their subjects. The rare good biopic, like Alan Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, generally tried to give us a sense of lives as they might have been lived. La Vie En Rose goes in the opposite direction, treating Piaf's life and art as a heartfelt, theatrical spectacle. Director Olivier Dahan has said he wanted to make a "tragic, romantic blockbuster," and he has done so: this is bravura popular filmmaking, marked by both precision and gusto. The use of Piaf's music is so impressionistic throughout that it almost has a Terence Davies flavor to it; song is treated as memory."