1. A Discussion About an Unconventional New Serge ...
Aug 31, 2011 · A grotesque masked figure based on an anti-Semitic caricature that Gainsbourg, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, encounters as a child.
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2. The Life and Loves of Serge Gainsbourg - The Forward
Aug 31, 2011 · A surreal doppelganger called “La Grueule” (“The Mug”), played by American actor Doug Jones, evolves from a grotesque humpty-dumpty inflated ...
Courtesy of Music Box Films In a remarkable feat for a man who was not considered good looking, Serge Gainsbourg was celebrated as much for his loves as for his art. He began life in Paris as Lucien Ginsburg, the son of Jewish refugees from the 1917 Russian Revolution. Like his parents, he survived the...
3. Gainsbourg | Drama films | The Guardian
Jul 29, 2010 · The puppet-as-doppelganger was interesting enough the first couple of times around, but got repetitive and boring. Women seemed to function ...
Adored and despised in fairly equal measure, Serge Gainsbourg is the subject of an appropriately spiky biopic. By Peter Bradshaw
4. Serge Gainsbourg biopic premieres under shadow of British star's death
Jan 17, 2010 · Lucy Gordon, the Oxford-born actor chosen over 500 other hopefuls to play the role of Birkin, killed herself weeks after filming had finished.
Director dedicates film to Lucy Gordon, Oxford-born actor who 'sparkles' as Serge Gainsbourg's muse Jane Birkin
5. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is too timidly conceived by half | Denver
Witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar's first feature, an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary French singer-songwriter-scamp Serge Gainsbourg (1928 ...
Sometimes it's easier for life to imitate art than vice versa. Witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar's first feature, an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary French singer-songwriter-scamp Serge Gainsbourg (1928-91), né Lucien Ginsburg, within the confines of a commercial showbiz biopic. Sfar's Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is itself...
6. Gainsbourg - Online-Inquirer
Sep 20, 2024 · The film opens with the young Lucien Ginsburg growing up in Nazi-occupied Paris, his Russian-Jewish parents hailed from a musical background and his father ...
To be honest I wasn’t quite sure what the movie Gainsbourg was going to be like, surprisingly it’s not the straight forward, reverential biopic that I was half expecting. In fact it’s a…
7. JOANN SFAR, “GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE” - Filmmaker Magazine
Aug 31, 2011 · Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a live-action fantasy based on the life of über-French chansonnier and peerless provocateur Serge Gainsbourg ( ...
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8. Review: Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life - Slant Magazine
Aug 27, 2011 · ... Serge (Eric Elmosnino, a near-lookalike with the requisite lascivious panache and curled lip). In Sfar's vision, Gainsbourg is mentored from ...
The film is at its best when its mythologizing is carnal and infused with cabaret.
9. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Reviews - Metacritic
... Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings ...
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar. Along the way he romances many of the era’s most beautiful women, including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. Employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that includes many of the musician’s greatest hits, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a quintessential time capsule to ‘60’s Paris. (Music Box Films)