Gainsbourg

[dpgmel]

For me at least one of the most anticipated January releases is this film, just wondering if anyone has seen it and if so their thoughts would be welcome



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gainsbourg-D...8171388&sr=1-1

[wadsy]

I haven't seen it but I will get it. Serge Gainsbourg was a fascinating character & with Laetitia Casta as Bardot!! Can't wait.

[dpgmel]

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I haven't seen it but I will get it. Serge Gainsbourg was a fascinating character & with Laetitia Casta as Bardot!! Can't wait.

I'm with you on that

[christoph404]

I went to the cinema to see it with high expectations...I thought it was dire/boring and didn't enjoy it at all, I was with someone and that was the only thing that kept me seated for if I had been alone I would have left at about 30 mins into the film. The main actor does a commendable impersonation of Gainsbourg and looks uncannily like him but the director/writer has decided to infuse the film with some incredibly pretentious and frankly laughable dramatic/visual devices such as a large carnival head of Gainsbourg that follows him around and also an alter ego type cartoon character with a big nose that crops up to fill holes in the script, I thought that aspect was naff and just didn't work at all, I don't think the film captured the essence of the man or his music at all.....I was very disappointed especially as the reviews seemed very favorable...I'd give it thumbs down...sorry!!

[dremble wedge]

I rather liked it, but it does come from the Ken Russell school of musical biography so I wouldn't expect 'facts' or 'stuff that actually happened'



Although if Charlotte Gainsbourg had played her father (as originally planned) it would have been incredible...

[Harbottle]

Misread this as Gainsborough, I though some old titles were getting released

[dpgmel]

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Misread this as Gainsborough, I though some old titles were getting released

You realise the younger generation on Britmovie are now wondering what you're talking about

[Sgt Sunshine]

Its most definitely one that I am looking forward to seeing...what an incredible character.......

Cheers

Sgt S

[moonfleet]

Haven't seen it, and honestly I don't intend to, because I don't like biopics in cinema ...

For information, it's a film done by a prolific comics author, Joann Sfar, who is quite famous in France.

[David Challinor]

I hope to see it on our local big screen (see below) ... it was a sell-out earlier this month so it's back.

I have to confess, I will be there to see Lucy Gordon's performance. RIP.



http://www.everymancinema.com/cinema...7&ln=1&pi=1838

[christoph404]

Actually Lucy Gordon is so sweet and charming on screen,such a beautiful girl, she seems to get Jane Birkin's French speaking style off to a tee, ie very plummy with an English accent, such a great shame and tragedy that she decided to end her life.

[wadsy]

It's on here in Cinemas next week. It got very good reviews on TV.



I did read though that Gainsbourg's encounter with Whitney Houston on a chat show isn't mentioned. Shame!

[christoph404]

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It's on here in Cinemas next week. It got very good reviews on TV.



I did read though that Gainsbourg's encounter with Whitney Houston on a chat show isn't mentioned. Shame!

Possibly not the only time he disgraced himself on live TV, obviously out of his head on drugs and alcohol, that encounter with Whitney Houston is just excruciating, he comes across as a repulsive sex pest, not charming in the slightest..such a shame, I think he was quite a destructive character to himself and his image, that aspect is touched upon very slightly in the film.

[moonfleet]

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I did read though that Gainsbourg's encounter with Whitney Houston on a chat show isn't mentioned. Shame!

What he said was the only english words he knew

He was "high degree" saturated with alcohol during this show, but it's not an excuse , he was very rude to her (he was too with Catherine Ringer from Les Rita Mitsouko in another talk show ). One off his most provocative act was to burn a 500 (ex) Francs billet in direct live, that shocked a lot of people (rich and poor, for different reasons )

I think Joann Sfar wanted to focus on Gainsbourg's artistic and life parcours but evicted the scandalous anecdotes which are many...