A film about the extraordinary life of singer Edith Piaf is the Bermuda International Film Festival's Film Night selection for January.

'La Vie en Rose' will screen on Thursday, January 17 at 7.30 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. Tickets can be reserved at info@biff.bm. Tickets are $10, or $8 for BIFF Film Club members.

The troubled life of the French songbird, who died in 1963 at age 48, had enough drama to fill a dozen films.

Her upbringing in a brothel, followed by bruising encounters with sex, booze and drugs, created a voice that touched the world with such hits as 'La Vie en Rose', 'Milord', and 'Je Ne Regrette Rien'.

Somehow, Olivier Dahan's impressionistic heartbreaker of a film gets it all in.

And Marion Cotillard, nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for lip-synching Piaf's songs and delving into her soul with gale force urgency, gives a performance for the ages.