2010 > France > Directed by Joann Sfar
With Eric Elmosnino, Doug Jones, Laetitia Casta
1960's French pop icon and incendiary public figure Serge Gainsgourg is the subject of Joann Sfar's fanciful and dark emotional biopic. A portrait of a man who paved his own way while living larger than life, the film is a retelling of the events of Gainsbourg's life - from being a Jewish adolescent in Nazi occupied France, to his rise as a musical sensation, to his serial affairs with notoriously sexy women - with all of the fancy and flair that Gainsbourg demanded of his own life. The film is what The New Yorker calls, "a lively bout between bio-pic and fairy tale." Subtitled. More at www.gainsbourgaheroiclife.com 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 10 min