La Vie en Rose (La Môme)

LA VIE EN ROSE

New York, February 16, 1959.

Hurry! She collapsed ten minutes ago.

The ambulance is coming.

Saint Theresa, my sweet Jesus, don't abandon me,

give me strength, I want to go on living.

Bring me back to life.

Why are you crying?

Scram you scoundrels!

I'm so lonely and sad.

Life is so bad.

That's all I've ever had.

What more can I say.

What are you doing here?

Why are you crying? Are you by yourself?

Where's your mother?

Everywhere I stray.

Like a ball and chain.

I have nothing but pain.

Nothing to gain.

My life is so bad.

That's all I've ever had

I'm so lonely and sad.

Some mother. You're not worth the hangman's rope!

I have to live. I'm a singer!

Look at your daughter!

I take very good care of her!

Louis, I can't go on waiting for you like this.

Belleville's unbearable.

An impresario said with my talent

I should try Constantinople like the singer Frehel...

Good news for our acrobat?

Sure... commendations from Clemenceau.

I left Edith with my mother.

Mamma Aicha will keep her until my career takes off.

Louis, I've stopped waiting for you.

Anetta.

Anybody home?

Edith?

Louis?

I'm taking her.

Bernay, Normandy 1918.

What's this...

Your grandchild,

Edith.

What a strange name.

She's a sickly child.

Follow me.

What are you doing here?

You're so cute. What's your name?

Back to work, Titine!

Someone's in the upstairs toilet.

You've beautiful blue eyes.

I'm listening...

I have to go back.

I'll be demobilized soon. Then I'll go back to the circus.

I came to see my cherub.

Get out.

I'm all done, Mamma Louise.

Tend the door.

Where's her mother?

I don't know.

Want to leave her here?

People will gossip.

People always gossip.

Aren't we taking her to church?

We'll miss mass.

The earth doesn't revolve around her.

Heard we're keeping a baby.

Can we see her?

She's a little girl. Want bread?

Everyone out of here.

Go on, ask her to sing.

Too bad redheads can't sing on stage.

One night I went for a swim.

Merely dressed in my own bare skin.

No one was there to see me

but the darkest of skies.

Till the moon came out to shine

I was going to say, give me a smile.

When I heard quite nearby.

An emotional cry.

A man stood on a rock.

Still low enough to spy.

The man called out "oh!"

And I from the water

called back to him "oh..."

He saw me quite naked...

Nothing to hold up or hide behind

I blushed all the night long.

He saw me quite naked.

Quite naked.

Out of respect for the poor man...

I covered my face with my two little.

But now it's clear.

With my gesture of fear

I forgot to hide.

My sweet little backside.

He saw me naked...

Titine!

Titine, open up. Enough of this!

- Now what? - She's with Edith.

Open this door, now!

What's going on?

Nothing! Get ready, the gentlemen will be here soon.

- Open up or else! - I can't work.

- I can't work! - Really!

You think this is a hotel?

I'm keeping Edith. I'm keeping her.

That's what you think!

It's me, open up.

Your legionnaire's here.

I don't care. He's a liar. He tells me nothing but lies.

Titine, stop this right now and come out

or you'll find yourself out on the street!

Enough of your antics!

I don't want trouble.

Doug!

What? Are you jealous?

I sent the Billie Holiday records to the hotel.

Thank you, Loulou.

Billie and I were born the same year. Funny!

I brought my sketches.

Do you want to see them now or later?

Later. Have to sing that big lug's song.

Before your time...

What?

Forget it.

Let's go.

I'm ready.

Let's go.

It's Jeanne!

Jeanne, what's wrong?

There's blood...

Talk to us!

He wanted to play doctor, with his instruments.

The bastard!

Titine!

We must tell Madam.

She'll kill me. It hurts.

I can't see!

- Well, Doctor? - Her health's fragile.

It's her cornea. She has keratitis.

Is she blind?

It's an inflammation.

Be patient. It takes months.

Take this to the pharmacy.

Thank you.

Whose child is she?

Nobody's.

Lisieux, Normandy.

Theresa, I rarely ask anything of you,

I only ask that you hear little Edith.

Go on, Edith. Speak to her. She'll listen.

Go ahead.

Theresa,

I don't want to be blind. I want to see.

She's all bruised.

Go on.

I want to learn to read, and run like before.

I don't want to be blind.

Saint Theresa, tell baby Jesus to look after Edith.

Go ahead.

Thank you Saint Theresa and Jesus.

Thank you.

She can see...

She can see!

Titine, get up!

What is it?

He's back. He's taking Edith.

Get dressed.

They can't do that to me!

How can you go back to that job?

She'll see the country.

Go then.

Edith!

Titine!

Don't take my little girl!

Let her go!

Enough!

She's mad!

Stop it or you're out!

You have no right!

Don't do this to me!

Go!

I'll kill myself.

We're at Orly airport.

Passengers are disembarking.

I see her. It's Edith Piaf!

A young man's on her arm.

What did you bring from America?

An American.

What's his name?

Edith, please!

Like her song, she's "carried away by the crowd"...

She steps into her elegant black and white car.

She looks tired, but is all smiles.

Silence! I propose a toast...

What a slob!

Slob yourself.