Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Being a fan of serge gainsbourg growing up in Paris ,i loved this movie ,i didn't know anything about his childhood but this is very well done and the resemblance of the actor with serge gainsbourg is stuning he was the most provocative writer of his time making every song a hit it's also a great portrait of a very disturbed artist who miraculously survived the holocost

I enjoyed the look of this film, and the actors, but its structure and its scenes reminded me more of many comic books I've seen than a well-made film. It is episodic, and while there's some attempt to unify the film with recurrent images--a certain beach, for example--the film has very little narrative drive. More bothersome to me I've found the more I've thought about it, is that there's very little skill shown in building a scene: ie, there's rarely any drama constructed within a scene between characters. Instead, we are often given recognizably famous figures about whom we are likely to already have opinions, there are a couple of pointed lines which often hearken back to famous accounts of the encounter, and then it's over. There's a certain stasis to many (most?) scenes--yes, even when L Casta as Bardot is dancing around, there's an essential dramatic stasis. The scenes don't develop a plot so much as present a famous life in summary, as in frames from a comic book in which the drawn figures have the ability to move. And move they do, but to little dramatic effect and to little effect in moving forward the story. Even Serge's puppet alter-ego has little effect in creating any dramatic tension. Again, when Serge and the puppet are together in a scene no drama actually develops, their relationship is schematic, static. You get the point of it right away and while it changes a bit over time, it is hardly dramatic or very interesting or surprising. All in all, the film does what I think most comic books do very well: convey an attitude to those who already hold it. That's fine, but I wish there was more.

Extra ordinary. I loved it. Acting, sets, costumes, music, story telling - all gorgeous. Tells the story with cohesion and only a minimum of flashbacks. The women are wonderful. Great movie.

I loved this movie.Totally creative and Original. I have never seen a creative biopic. Rent it, you will not be disappointed

Quite good! A very inventive, imaginative film. Certainly not your average biopic.