{"id":4380,"date":"2015-05-11T06:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2015-05-26T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T10:20:53","slug":"gainsbourg-a-heroic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gainsbourg,

Doug Jones and Eric Elmosnino in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life<\/p><\/div>\n

This 2010 biopic<\/a>\u2014directed by comic book artist Joann Sfar, who wrote the script with Isabel Ribis based on Sfar\u2019s graphic novel\u2014came across every bit as messy and undisciplined as its subject (trailer<\/a>). Serge Gainsbourg (played beautifully by Eric Elmosnino) was a French painter and highly successful musician and songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s, who is considered a leading, if occasionally scandalizing, figure in French pop music.<\/p>\n

Sfar gives Gainsbourg an imaginary alter-ego (La Gueule, played in a cartoonish mask by Doug Jones) who at first is his cheerleader, encouraging him to create and perform, but who comes to be a darker force, egging on his bad behavior. (It’s somewhat reminiscent of how Michael Keaton was dogged by his former self in Birdman<\/em>.) Meanwhile, Gainsbourg bounces from one love affair to another and in and out of marriage, having notable liaisons with Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Gr\u00e9co, and a ten-year relationship with British actress Jane Birkin. His time is spent at the piano writing songs for his lovers and smoking thousands of cigarettes.<\/p>\n

The movie credits are charming and undoubtedly reflected the talents and eye of Sfar, and the early scenes of the movie about Gainsbourg when he was a precocious young boy (before he changed his name from Lucien Ginsburg), defiantly wearing his yellow star, are charming. But, in a rare concession to boredom, I abandoned the movie after an hour and a half, missing the artist\u2019s final downward spiral and his popular reggae period, too. Not to mention the heroic of the film\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes critics\u2019 rating 73%; audiences: 68%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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