Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2011-08-31 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Music Box Films
• Film Genre(s): Animation, Biopic (Biography)
• Country: France
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Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque is the story, amusing and fantastic, of Serge Gainsbourg and his famous mug. It's the story of a little Jewish boy who saunters about in a Paris occupied by the Germans; of a young, timid poet (Eric Elmosnino) who leaves behind his paintings and his room beneath the rooftops to dazzle nightclub crowds during the Swinging Sixties. It's a "heroic life" where the creatures of his mind become full-bodied on screen and his eloquence is a good match with his scandalous love affairs. From these elements arises a subversive work, with a loyal and rebellious citoyen as its star who stirs up the whole world until his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

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