Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
If only all biopics were as entertaining as this.
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Comic book artist Joann Sfar interprets the life of '60s pop star Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino),1921-1991, beginning with his childhood years in Nazi-occupied Paris, through his early years as a painter and jazz musician (brushing shoulders with Boris Vian), to his life as a wildly popular singer-songwriter, notorious bon vivant, and lover of some of the world's most glamorous women. Gainsbourg's two-sided personality (narcissistic and self-loathing) and his over-the-top antics with Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta), Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon), and beatnik icon Juliette Gréco (Anna Mouglalis) share the screen with a giant puppet alter-ego: a scary, libidinous bad-boy who personifies all of Gainsbourg's worst proclivities.
“Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth.” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times)
“Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth.” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times)
Genre
Bio-pic
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Runtime
122
Language
French
Director
Joann Sfar
Cast
Eric Elmosnino
FEATURED REVIEW
Kenneth Turan,Los Angeles Times
Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth."Heroic" may seem like an odd word to attach to a man like the legendary songwriter and ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 9.09.11 - 9.15.11
Town Center 5 9.09.11 - 9.15.11
Claremont 5 9.16.11 - 9.22.11
Monica Film Center 9.24.11 - 9.25.11
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