La Vie en Rose (La Môme)

"New York, February 16, 1959"

Hurry! She collapsed ten minutes ago.

The ambulance is here.

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

give me strength, I want to go on living.

Bring me back to life.

"Paris, Belleville 1918"

Why are you crying?

Scram you brats!

"I'm so lonely and sad"

"Life drags on and on,"

"Things are so bad"

"What more can I say"

What are you doing here?

Why are you crying?

Are you all alone?

Where's your mommy?

"Everywhere I stray"

"Like a ball and chain"

"I drag this pain"

"Nothing to gain"

"Life drags on and on"

"Things are so bad"

"I'm so lonely and sad"

Some mother. You deserve to be strung up!

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?

Enough's enough.

"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.

You'd be on stage, but your hair's too red.

"One night I went for a swim"

"Wearing only my bare skin

"No one was there to see"

"Except the dark night sky"

"Then the moon came out to shine"

"I asked it to caress me, baby"

"When I heard nearby"

"A breathless cry"

"There was a man upon a rock"

"Looking down at me"

"The man went 'oh!"'

"And me in the water"

"I said 'oh..."'

"He saw me nude..."

"With nothing to hold up or hide behind"

"I blushed all night long"

"He saw me nude"

"Quite nude"

"Out of human decency"

"I covered my face with my two hands"

"But now it's clear"

"With my careless gesture of fear"

"I forgot to hide"

"My sweet little backside"

"He saw me nude..."

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.

Come out or you'll be on the street so fast!

Enough of your antics!

I don't want trouble.

"New York, May 8, 1959"

Doug!

What? Are you jealous?

I sent your 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. I've got to sing that fool's song.

Before your time...

What?

Forget it.

Let's go.

I'm ready.

Let's go.

"Come right in, Milord"

"Sit down at my table"

"It's freezing cold outside"

"Here it's more comfortable"

"Make yourself at home, Milord"

"Leave your cares with me"

"Relax, you'll be at ease"

"Put your feet up, feel free"

"I know you well, Milord"

"Although you don't know me"

"A mere girl of the port"

"A shadow of the street..."

"I passed quite close to you"

"In the street yesterday"

"You looked so full of pride"

"The man with everything"

"Your lovely silken scarf"

Floating all around your shoulders

"You seemed on top of the world"

"One might say a king"

"Marching like a victor"

"A lady on your arm"

"My God, she was so beautiful"

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.

This is it. You're here, Edith.

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?