Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

(2010)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 359 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2010

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: France, United States of America

Director: Joann Sfar

Cast: Éric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Летиция Каста, Даг Джонс, Анна Муглалис, Милен Джампаной, Sara Forestier, Kacey Mottet Klein, Razvan Vasilescu, Динара Друкарова

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.

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.