影視英語聽力 第3期:La Vie en Rose 玫瑰人生
有著“小麻雀”之稱的法國國寶級歌手艾迪特•皮雅芙(瑪麗昂•歌迪亞飾)，她有著傳奇的一生。皮雅芙的童年顛沛流離，先是被母親拋棄，然后被父親送到妓院由祖母撫養(yǎng)，隨后在父親從軍隊(duì)退役后，又被強(qiáng)行帶走隨馬戲團(tuán)演出生活。再之后皮雅芙跟隨父親賣藝為生，街頭初啼并到成為一名酒吧賣唱的少女。
正式登臺的皮雅芙順利成為一名歌喉迷人的明星，演唱了許多膾炙人口的歌曲。然而她的情感卻一再受挫，尤其是和拳擊手馬塞爾(讓-皮埃爾·馬丁斯飾)的情感經(jīng)歷。她的晚年每況愈下，最后死于肝癌。
對話文本:
La Vie en Rose, a new film by Olivier Dahan , tells a story of Édith Piaf, the great French singer who is one of the icons of French culture in the postwar era. Piaf is played by Marion Cotillard, a fine-boned, big-eyed actress who gives one of those bravura biopic performances that seems bent on convincing you that you are actually watching not just the person,the movie is about but an even more real version of that person.
Now this movie has some of the standard satisfactions and also the standard limitations of the Hollywood biopic.It made me wonder if all famous musicians basically have the same life or if all movies about famous musicians basically tell the same story, like Ray Charles in Ray and Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, this Édith Piaf rises up from an impoverished unhappy traumatic childhood to battle drug addiction, to have a series of love affairs, to collapse on stage, to get in car accidents, to have a lover died in a plane crash, to betray her best friends to sign record deals , and to just sing her little heart out.
The director seems to make some very odd choices about what to tell and what not to tell, for example it’s not until the very end of the movie when Édith Piaf is on her death bed that you suddenly have a flash back and discover that when she was a teenager she had a child who died of meningitis.It's kind of like "Oh, by the way, did I mention, I had a child and she died".One thing that’s not mentioned at all is the Second World War, the movie jumps from 1940 when Édith Piaf meets a soldier who is about to go off to the front to 1947 when she’s in New York falling in love with a French boxer. And it seems odd that a movie about such a major figure in the history of France would not have anything about her life in the major event of 20th century French history. So all in all, this is a rather baffling movie, just doesn’t feel particularly urgent or necessary.It doesn’t feel like it adds anything to your understanding of this fascinating and strange figure.
Vocabulary
bravura : Great skill shown in the way you perform, write, paint etc, especially when you do something very difficult:
Eg.a bravura performance
