Notes

• Special feature: "Stepping into character", with behind- the-scenes character development sequences for the film, including interviews with Dahan and Cotillard and footage of Piaf in performance (7 min)
• Director of photography, Tetsuo Nagata ; editor, Richard Marizy ; music, Christopher Gunning ; costumes, Marit Allen ; production designer, Olivier Raoux
• Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé
• A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she makes her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems
• MPAA rating: PG-13; for substance abuse, sexual content, brief nudity, language and thematic elements
• DVD; region 1; Dolby 5.1
• In French, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles
• Closed-captioned in English