Gainsbourg
2010, Biography/Music, 2h 10m
83 Reviews 10,000+ RatingsWhat to know
It might be thinly written and messily made, but Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is also appropriately glamorous and intense -- and powerfully led by a gripping performance from Erik Elmosnino. Read critic reviews
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Serge Gainsbourg
Jane Birkin
Brigitte Bardot
La Gueule
Juliette Gréco
Bambou
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Critic Reviews for Gainsbourg
All Critics (83) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (22)
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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.
June 18, 2012 | Full Review… -
It's a comic-strip version of one man's life and times, but it's tres cool.
December 9, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
While the movie's on a roll, it's zesty, engaging and frisky.
November 16, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
In short, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a charmer.
November 10, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
French pop star Serge Gainsbourg was as much iconoclast as icon, so it's fitting that this fanciful biopic is both affectionate and irreverent.
November 4, 2011 | Full Review… -
Sfar, perhaps understandably, adores the legend of Serge Gainsbourg too much to make the whole nicotine-infused picture anything greater than what it is.
November 4, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
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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.
June 18, 2012 | Full Review… -
It's a comic-strip version of one man's life and times, but it's tres cool.
December 9, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
While the movie's on a roll, it's zesty, engaging and frisky.
November 16, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
In short, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a charmer.
November 10, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Gainsbourg is often just the right side of uncomfortably intimate, but that's what makes it such a magnetic film.
May 19, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
It's as surprising and unconventional as the man himself -- but that doesn't mean it serves him well.
January 5, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Gainsbourg
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Jul 04, 2013Before there was a Serge Gainsbourg(Eric Elmosnino), there was a Lucien Ginsburg(Kacey Mottet Klein), who as a child during the Nazi occupation of France, shows up early to get his yellow star. Otherwise, his musician father(Razvan Vasilescu) wants him to follow in his footsteps but young Lucien has other ideas that involve an interest in painting, especially after an early encounter with a nude model(Ophelia Kolb). As an adult, he is still studying art, at least until he meets Juliette Greco(Anna Mouglalis), Dali's mistress, as his mind goes back to music where the money is. As much as the spirited and sexy biopic "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" assumes the audience already knows about the work of the legendary composer and musician, it does not hurt the movie as it takes more of a psychological and expressionistic view, starting with the cool animated opening titles, as Gainsbourg is advised by his walking id(Doug Jones,) who also interacts with other characters, well into adulthood. That's when he gets to live the life he always dreamed of as a child with a panoply of beautiful women, and smoking cigarettes that make him look cool and which will also be the end of him. But if he could also make great songs like 'Bonnie and Clyde' with Brigitte Bardot(Laetitia Casta), I'm more than willing to look the other way.Walter M Super Reviewer
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Dec 14, 2011Slightly surrealistic biopic covering the life of a French folk/rock icon, the hard-drinking, hard-smoking Lothario Serge Gainsbourg, with a scary puppet doppelganger on hand representing his inner demons. The experimentalism and some dead-on portrayals of Gainsboug's glamorous lovers---Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin---make for a lively tribute to the rakish singer's rebel spirit.Greg S Super Reviewer
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Aug 11, 2011This charming biopic about Serge Gainsbourg is definitely not special, and I really don't know what is so heroic about him, but it is a delight to see how he wrote some of his songs and met the women of his life, in a surreal and stylish depiction of part of his existence.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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Jun 26, 2011I could care less about the life of Gainsbourg and this movie really didn't change my mind. It mainly just follows the exact same formula of The Doors, but just with a far less interesting subject. It's almost baffling how they could get away with telling such a mirrored story when I'm sue the two people couldn't have been different. Sometimes this looks like a filmed play, due to the odd lighting and desire to always frame the action in exactly the same way. It also seemed to drag for a ridiculously long time for being just a 2hr movie. I'm not someone who is a die-hard fan of French film-making and this seemed to posses all the traits I don't care for. The necessity for imaginary puppets, goofy narrative breaks and oddly paced scenes didn't help me enjoy this anymore. The one thing I did happen to enjoy was all the beautiful women, but that's hardly something you can compliment the movie itself for. Eric Elmosnino really doesn't do anything interesting here; he just sort'v mopes his way through the movie and doesn't even become interesting until the very last stretch of Gainsbourg's life. I'm sure there will be people that eat this up and just love this biopic, but I really found it to be pointless and terribly executed.Conner R Super Reviewer
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Quotes
| Serge Gainsbourg: | [spoken to Jane] I'm trying to resist my desire to kiss you. |
| Serge Gainsbourg: | [singing] We were in love. As long as the song lasted. |
| Serge Gainsbourg: | No, it's pretty when you cry. |
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