Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Year: 2010

Actors: Doug Jones, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

Duration: 135 min

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.—KGF Vissers

Genre: Biography   Drama   Music