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Eric Elmosnino (Actor), Lucy Gordon (Actor), Joann Sfar (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
3.9 out of 5 stars 27 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones
  • Directors: Joann Sfar
  • Format: Import, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Jan. 2011
  • Run Time: 122 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003NE4V0U
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,480 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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From visionary graphic artist and director Joann Sfar comes a completely original take on one of the world’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Serge Gainsbourg.

Gainsbourg is an enchanting glimpse at the life of a musical icon, his early years growing up as a Jewish boy in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, his wildly successful songwriting years and of course his now legendary romances with some of the era’s most famous women: Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin.

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4.0 out of 5 starsSmokin'
By Charles Vasey TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 25 July 2012
Format: DVD
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) is going to suffer in the Anglo-Saxon world from the acutely French nature of his appeal. His work over parts of five decades was wide-ranging and hard to categorise, but for most of us it is centered around "Je t'aime" delivered with lots of grunting and the reedy voice of Jane Birkin. My knowledge of French music starts to weaken with Georges Ulmer in Pigalle and is gone with Jacques Brel (assuming we can count him as French for this purpose) thereafter it is warbling songs by female singers for whom one's true interest was the photo on the record sleeve..... bonjour Francoise Hardy. Accordingly, I missed many of the musical themes the film brings in, though even I could detect a number of the sexual themes which seem to have obsessed him.

I suspect in good part the film is concerned with Gainsbourg's ability to have affairs with numerous attractive women. Here Eric Elmosnino plays him with a remarkable level of believability, and an uncanny physical likeness. Gainsbourg as intellectual (and maybe satyr) comes through from his precocious childhood (admirably played by Kacey Mottet Klein) into his less successful era as a painter and his constant belief in his own ugliness (his gueule - represented by an actor with a big-nose-big-ears headpiece). His descent into drink and his movement into other musical styles is not as fully sketched. Gainsbourg was a remarkable artist, a bit of a bastard but without the background of his other music the film left me to start exploring the man's work.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGainsbourg - A frank look at the man which explains much about him, but doesn't help you to like him
By Victor HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 4 Oct. 2011
Format: DVD
This is a film like almost no other. It tells the story of Serge Gainsbourg, one of France's most popular, and controversial, musicians.

The film deals with various episodes in his life, from growing up as a Jew in Nazi occupied France, through his noted affairs, his fist steps in the world of music, the creation of `J'Taime', his relationship with his parents, wives and children, and the controversy surrounding his recording fo the French national anthem.

So far so run of the mill biographical picture. But there is something that sets this film apart, and that is the slightly surreal air. Gainsbourg is haunted by various animated characters, notably Professor Flipus, a sublimation of his own sub-conscience and baser desires. These animations have a charm all of their own, and serve to really push the story and explore Gainsbourg's motivations.

I have to confess that after watching the film, I had a better understanding of the man, but I didn't warm to him much and had a feeling of slight distaste for him. His music, while not always to my taste, is very good and it is easy to see why he became such an icon in France.

This is a very charming film that presents the life of this essentially unlikeable man in a way that keeps the viewer engaged. It is quirky, funny in places, moving in others. It is quite unique. Four stars.

The film is in French with English subtitles.
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5.0 out of 5 starsKaleidoscopic and colourful movie
By Hywel James VINE VOICE on 24 Jan. 2011
Format: DVD
Fans of Serge Gainsbourg may be a little disappointed that "Gainsbourg:Vie Heroique", by Joann Sfar, offers a somewhat fragmented and kaleidoscopic picture of the great French singer and songwriter, instead of a more straight, documentary style biopic. Somewhat in the manner of the British movie, "Sex and Drugs and Rock n'Roll",(2009), where Andy Serkis recreated Ian Dury unforgettably in a series of episodes from the performer's life, Sfar presents a series of tableaux, each one of which illustrates a particular theme which the director considers significant in relation to Gainsbourg's career.

Eric Elmosnino gives a terrific performance in the name role. Other players too give outstanding performances, not only in terms of their vitality but also to an uncanny degree in looking so much like the characters Gainsbourg encountered during his life. In this regard the actors who played Bardot (Laetitia Casta), Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), and Jane Birkin (the late Lucy Gordon), were outstanding. Other characters, including Frehel, Georges Brassens, Boris Vian and Django Reinhard, also appear briefly and much trouble has been taken to find actors who greatly resemble the original figures.

The film throughout is a wonderfully colourful and witty tribute to Gainsbourg's life and times - it is visually very beautiful - but more importantly it has a tough political edge in relation to its treatment of anti-semitism, both in the France of Gainsbourg's time, and in personal terms of the singer's perception of himself. Again, fans of the singer may regret that less attention is paid to Gainsbourg's music, but maybe someone is already preparing the documentary that would complete the picture.

Altogether the film is an entertaining and vivid recreation of an era in French culture. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIf Gainsbourg was a river that ran deep in your world...
By niluferplum on 4 Oct. 2014
Format: DVD
Captivating biopic directed by French director, novelist, comics artist Joann Sfar.

If Gainsbourg was a river that ran deep in your world, if he was part of your cultural fabric, you will fall in love with the film, grateful that he has been recreated--beautifully--, that you can spend two hours in his company again, trying to puzzle out what happened to him. I loved witnessing once again the remarkable eloquence of this man of letters, his musical and poetic genius, his cutting wit, cheekiness, poker face, understated singing style, the subversiveness that was present from the outset, his vulnerability, his antics, drunken debauchery, quiet rage, the ears, the hooter, the string of alluring and high-profile women...

Each episode blends into the next seamlessly - a rare feat in a biopic.

I loved witnessing the love with which one artist, Sfar, paid homage to another.

A feast.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Different.

Published 5 months ago by jappobear
4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent, in spite of weaknesses.

How do you make a film of a life which was larger than life? Difficult indeed, and the makers of this film decided to try to do so by giving it a surrealistic touch, with the... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Gerard P.
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Published 13 months ago by Mr. Tanner
5.0 out of 5 starsWell worth Blu-Ray

Great film, quite unusual, far more than your standard biopic. Definitely worth owning in Blu-ray, and watching with good speakers!

Published 15 months ago by Helen
5.0 out of 5 starsA prique

Whilst those who inhabit a vanilla world, a place Serge would have thrown up over, want a straight bio pic, the Director has taken the elan of Serge to recreate him within this... Read more

Published on 5 Dec. 2013 by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
1.0 out of 5 starsUTTER RUBBISH

I FOUND THE PUPPET IRRITATING IN THE EXTREME.SERGE WOULD OF THOUGHT THE SAME. IF U WANT GAINSBOURG BY THE FRENCH 2 DVD SET D'AUTRES NOUVELLES DES ETOILES

Published on 30 Nov. 2013 by CENTRAL LONDON MAN
4.0 out of 5 starsA bit of a smartarse

Admittedly I was a bit squiffy when I watched this but even so 'old Serge' came across as a bit up himself in all honesty.

All in very good quality high def though. Read more

Published on 26 Nov. 2013 by Norbert
5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb

What a gem of a movie, even if you aren't familiar with his work, Serge was an extremely interesting and troubled character and his life story is the original rock and rock tale. Read more

Published on 16 Sept. 2013 by Rob Dundon
5.0 out of 5 starsIf you like Gainsbourg..

If you like Gainsbourg, it is a buy! Actor playing him is a spitting image and extremely good. Pity there is not more of his music in the film, but what there is is excellent.

Published on 24 Feb. 2013 by Mr. G. J. Fisher
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat film

After reading some not-so-good reviews on this film, I still thought I'd like to see it. I thought it was great, good acting and an interesting way of telling the story of a true... Read more

Published on 23 Sept. 2012 by Dave

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