Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Once upon a time a young boy, Lucien, was walking through the streets of Paris, which proudly displays the yellow star pinned to his jacket abominable.
This is the 1941st When this child of Russian Jewish parents with a mischievous gleam in the eye intersect with the pro-Nazi French militia, he began to sing the anthem Marseillaise with them ... although it did not quite know the words.
So nothing prevents the youth card Lucien - anti-Semitic propaganda featuring a caricature of a Jew. It's an ugly face that resembles a little too close. Pinned a face to be seen and despised by everyone.
He wants to escape or remove a grotesque face, but neither of them. Caricature of a sudden come to life, jumps out of the wall and begins to follow the boy. Since then, an ugly face will never leave his side. And 'his shadow, his curse, his inspiration, his only companion, his alter ego.
Even if you do not know yet, little is known Lucien one day Serge Gainsbourg.
This is the story of a hero lives. This is a guy who travels in occupied Paris, taking out the words as if you need to set flowers in Gun Barrel. Forty years later, causing a major disaster in a concert in Strasbourg, where he sang in a Jamaican reggae version of La Marseillaise. The concert hall has cast the army, blacks and the musicians did not even dare to come on stage. Gainsbourg was a legendary win over France in subversive humor.
It is a story of conquest. A passionate lover, despite his awkward face trying the legendary Serge Gainsbourg Brigitte Bardot in bed. He seduces Jane Birkin, while taking a bath in his underwear and convinces French flag Juliette Greco waltz with him barefoot in the early morning hours. These legendary women, without exception, they sing nonsense poetry, he wrote for them.
And 'the story of a duel. The most dangerous of them pitting Gainsbourg against his alter ego, Ugly Face, Bony, a puppet cat / man who jealously guards his love, and remind him of his repressed humiliation, when it is on the brink of happiness. Ugly Face Jester is an intelligent, always ready to help and prevent the creative process, disturbing the poet / singer 's night, and never give him the peace of mind.
This is a story where Gainsbourg is developing to be a starving French painter and master of the pop song. His music takes the reins turning narrative Hippopodame chubby wife (Lady Hippo), and an adulterer and an evening of passionate worldwide hit, Je t'aime, moi non plus (I love you, I'm not). And so, to tell the story of this manipulator of words, this provocation, and women, the shy but eager adventurer, we change the Straight Talk rhymes wild and ready to dive in the sixties swing in Paris.
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life [limited]
Director: Joann Sfar
Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta
Studio: Music Box Films
