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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Directed by
Joann Sfar
Not Rated
2010
2h 1m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
6.9
73%
68%
6.9
Watch Free
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
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Cast of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Éric Elmosnino
Serge Gainsbourg
Lucy Gordon
Jane Birkin
Laetitia Casta
Brigitte Bardot
Doug Jones
La gueule
Anna Mouglalis
Juliette Greco
Mylène Jampanoï
Bambou
Sara Forestier
France Gall
Kacey Mottet Klein
Lucien Ginsburg
Răzvan Vasilescu
Joseph Gainsburg (le père)
Dinara Drukarova
Olga Gainsburg (la mère)
Philippe Katerine
Boris Vian
Deborah Grall
Elisabeth Levizky
Yolande Moreau
Fréhel
Ophélia Kolb
Le Modèle
Claude Chabrol
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg
François Morel
Le Directeur de l'Internat
Philippe Duquesne
Lucky Sarcelles
Oliver Cywie
Gosse Internat 1
Joann Sfar
Director / Novel
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Producer
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
It's a comic-strip version of one man's life and times, but it's tres cool.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
In short, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a charmer.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
French pop star Serge Gainsbourg was as much iconoclast as icon, so it's fitting that this fanciful biopic is both affectionate and irreverent.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sfar, perhaps understandably, adores the legend of Serge Gainsbourg too much to make the whole nicotine-infused picture anything greater than what it is.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Alas, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" loses steam and grows more perfunctory as it wears on.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
For better and for worse, Sfar's a fan, and his movie is a busy love letter to Gainsbourg that skates along the surface of the legend.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Why was Gainsbourg a hero? The film leaves the question hanging. I am afraid it was only because, like Sinatra, he did it his way. Which no one can deny.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A viewer who comes into "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" knowing nothing about Serge Gainsbourg will not come out the other side especially enlightened about the late French-Jewish singer-songwriter's life, least of all why it is heroic.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A sloggy fantasia about Gainsbourg's life featuring such oddities as a giant, hook-nosed puppet that acts as the singer's alter ego, as well as a parade of showy sequences involving grand Gainsbourg amours Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
A lively bout between bio-pic and fairy tale.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
If only all biopics were as entertaining as this...
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
One could hardly make an honest movie about Gainsbourg that wasn't as recklessly ambitious as this.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Beyond its fantasy elements, Sfar's film doesn't color outside the lines as much as he might like us to think.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
There's one good reason to see this biopic of the French pop-cabaret songster Serge Gainsbourg, and that's its lead actor, Erik Elmosnino.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Laetitia Casta steals the movie as Bardot, slinking down the hall in a miniskirt and knee-high black boots, leading a dog on a leash, then cavorting nude behind a bedsheet as Gainsbourg knocks out a song on the piano.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Still, for all the 40-year-old filmmaker's interpolated animations and puppets, for the insouciant, slapdash tone that characterizes his graphic novels, and for his protagonist's proclivity for scandal, the movie is too timidly conceived by half.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
What's surprising, and ultimately disappointing, about Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the degree to which Sfar allows biopic obligations to smother his more whimsical instincts.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Lacks either the dramatic intensity or the arresting insight that might have lifted it out of the pedestrian realm of the admiring biopic.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
The film is at its best when its mythologizing is carnal and infused with cabaret, and not making the inflated claim of its title.
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