Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 20, 2012
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Lucy Gordon, Anna Mouglalis, Doug Jones, Eric Elmosnino & Laetitia Casta | |
| Directed by | Joann Sfar | |
| Screenwriting by | Joann Sfar | |
| Screenplay by | Joann Sfar | |
| Music Performer: | Serge Gainsbourg | |
| Composition by | Olivier Daviaud | |
| Subject: | Serge Gainsbourg | |
| Director of Photography: | Guillaume Schiffman |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Eric Elmosnino's impersonation of Gainsbourg in his drink-sodden progress from struggling painter to cabaret performer to aging proto-punk is a highly impressive piece of work.
Hollywood Reporter
3 stars out of 5 -- Eric Elmosnino miraculously nails Gainsbourg's louche, lupine suavity and beguiling vulnerability...
Empire
Rating: 4/5 --
Great songs, beautiful girls, lovely costumes and an artist in a constant state of flux are emphasised in Joann Sfar's imaginative, beautiful and suitably bizarre musing on the life of Serge Gainsbourg.
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The List
Rating: 3/4 --
In short, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a charmer.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 2/5 --
If there's one thing that Joann Sfar's Gainsbourg told me, it's that he smoked...a lot. And sometimes, he didn't shave for a few days... However, this was about all the insight provided by Sfar's competent effort.
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CineVue
French pop star Serge Gainsbourg was as much iconoclast as icon, so it's fitting that this fanciful biopic is both affectionate and irreverent.
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Chicago Reader
In conjoining Jewish heritage and classic French chanson, Gainsbourg celebrates the hybridity of contemporary French culture, while its combination of realist narrative and poetic animation make it both a touching biopic and an inspired musical.
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Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Director Joann Sfar's biopic GAINSBOURG, VIE HÉROÏQUE recounts the colorful life story of French chanteur and provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, known as much for his hugely outrageous antics in public as he was for his taboo-busting, often-hilarious song lyrics and orchestrations. Eric Elmosino stars as the lead, while the late, tragic actress Lucy Gordon (SPIDER-MAN 3) co-stars as Gainsbourg's third wife, the actress-model Jane Birkin.
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