Watch: Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lucien Ginsburg, a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination, hates playing the piano like his father, a bar professional, and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as a painter, where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive the occupation. After the war, he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring him success, even his parents’s approval, and lots of lovers, yet his marriages are all utter failures..
Plot: 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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A little disappointing
Serge Gainsbourg was many things: an artist, writer, painter, alcoholic and lover to many. He is a fascinating man who lead a fascinating life and director Joann Sfar makes a great effort here to portray it all. From the early days prior to WWII Gainsbourg was clearly going to amount to something. As he grew older and dabbled here and there in various art forms and dabbled in various women with lovers including Bridgette Bardot and Jane Birkin. Yet as he grew older Gainsbourg dabbled in more drink and drugs and this led to a troubled life.I was to begin with fascinated by this man, full of charm and wit and ideas abounding. Yet as the film progressed I felt less and less concerned by this man and began wondering when the film might end. As interesting he was, he was also not the nicest of characters, especially in his latter years when he appears to be a drunk and grumpy man. The little touches of fantasy work well to begin with, Gainsbourg’s ‘imaginary friend’ is interesting, but then becomes more and more grotesque and yet more annoying and often blurs the line between realism and surrealism.
Ultimately this has enough to provide an interesting account of someone who had a very full life, but for me it lost it’s way part way through and therefore lost it’s momentum.
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It’s not big or clever to smoke, and it doesn’t make you look cool unless you happen to be Serge Gainsbourg !
GAINSBOURG (Vie héroïque) from the Studio Canal stable depicts the life story of Serge Gainsbourg from early childhood in the 1930’s and 40’s, until just before his death in 1991.Born Lucien Ginsburg – and as an impressionable youth he felt outcast as being a Jewish child in Nazi occupied Paris in the 1940’s – leading him to develop an imaginary friend who adopted an increasingly grotesque caricature / persona of himself that would lead him on to do more and more outrageous things to “rebel” his situation and to attempt to gain an element of “love” and “acceptance” from his notoriety.
A talented musician and artist, Lucien (who later was persuaded by friends to change his name to the more “acceptable” Serge Gainsbourg) became the darling of the social scene, charming his way through a succession of affairs with beautiful women – most notably Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco, and Jane Birkin.
I’m surprised that they didn’t have a cigarette company sponsoring this movie – as the sheer amount of fags smoked during this film must be some sort of record!
After the showing of the film (at the Cineworld, Haymarket, London) we were treated to a Question and Answer session with the Writer / Director of this movie JOANN SFAR, who explained that the idea for the film came from his own graphic novel on Serge Gainsbourg penned by JOANN SFAR – and this pretty much formed the construct and ambiance of the movie – it is highly graphical and visual in it’s content – much of it being fantasy visions and flashbacks within Gainsbourg’s mind. Talking from the heart – Joann showed a real passion for the film, and was very open as to how the film was created.
Gainsbourg became the darling of French society with his talent and flair – but he also would court scandal and became infamous for the release of “Je t’aime… moi non plus” (which he originally wrote for Bardot) and the seemingly disrespectful reggae version of the French national anthem “La Marseillaise”, but love him or loath him – you couldn’t ignore him ..
The whole movie is very atmospheric, and some of the casting of this film was inspired – especially the terrific performances by Eric Elmosnini in the title role, the stunning beautiful Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot, Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin, Anna Mouglalis as Juliette Greco and Kacey Mottet Klein as the young Lucien Ginsburg.
At the end credits of the film is a dedication “to Lucy” which referred to the actress Lucy Gordon – who (the director explained) played the part of Jane Birkin in the film – and who had tragically committed suicide during the final editing parts of the film – a talented actress – and a sad loss.
At 2 hours 10mins long, in French with English subtitles GAINSBOURG will not be everyone’s cup of tea but the film DOES keep you entertained and if you give it a chance, I’m sure that you will not be disappointed …
It’s not big or clever to smoke, and it doesn’t make you look cool unless you happen to be Serge Gainsbourg !
GAINSBOURG is on general release from 30th July 2010
Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 15 min (135 min), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (recut) (UK)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Biography, Drama, Music
Director Joann Sfar
Writer Joann Sfar
Actors Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta
Country France
Awards 7 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France
Film Length 3,371 m (Portugal)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 250D 5205, Vision2 200T 5217, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)