Monday, April 16, 2007

Opening Gala COL COA 2007

With a lot of good food and champagne – I can’t even count how many glasses I had, which shouldn’t surprise anybody --, a good film and a few French celebrities, the COL COA gala opened the French festivalen fanfare”.

To be frank, I don’t think there could have been a better film to kick of the festivities than La Vie en Rose, a Oliver Dahan film about the life of singer Edith Piaf, played here by Marion Cotillard (photo below). A solid work avoiding the traps of biopic-type melodrama, La Vie en Rose not only perfectly embodies what France is about – art and decadence – but it also appeals to both fans and haters of Piaf – shouldn’t be too hard to guess I belong to the latter category.


The screening was followed by a Q&A with Cotillard, Dahan and their producer, a moment so bizarre that it looked like a sequence from a David Lynch movie. Not only did the people from the film seemed to have drunk as much as I did, but most questions from the audience didn’t make any sense, even including some insults.

Beside the drunkenness and the film, other highlights included meeting actress Marion Cotillard as well as directors Antoine de Caune and Olivier Dahan - photos coming soon.

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