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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Boston PhoenixBetsy ShermanElmosnino gives a deft and moving performance as the insecure piano player who reinvents himself as Gainsbourg, pop poet and improbable ladies' man, impelled to break taboos not only out of anger, but also to affirm his own existence. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThe movie turns terminally wearisome and even anti-climactic with the triumph of the brain-lodging "Je T'aime" (which, alone among the movie's numbers, is heard in its original version) and Gainsbourg's descent into alcoholic dissolution. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaIn short, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a charmer. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeVery nearly as inventive and fascinating as it is frustrating. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie unreels his musical biography with an unending series of tastes of songs and performances. You may be surprised by how many you recognize. |
| Toronto StarGreg QuillWhile Sfar doesn't dare tinker with the facts or sully the mystique, he gains enormous traction via the imaginative and subversive manner he has devised to tell a story that, in many ways, is hard to believe. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoWhile an iconic figure in France, Gainsbourg isn't a household name here in the States. But that shouldn't stop audiences from enjoying Sfar's good-looking, fanciful film. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottThe puppets and the music make Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life engaging, but it is also visually hectic and lacks either the dramatic intensity or the arresting insight that might have lifted it out of the pedestrian realm of the admiring biopic. |
| Fan The FireNick DeigmanSfar has not attempted to entirely understand Gainsbourg or have the final say on his image; he has simply provided a fascinating and refreshing perspective on this overlooked and enigmatic icon. |
| Uncut Magazine [UK]John LewisSfar is a little too in love with his subject, so it's just as well that Eric Elmosnino excels in the lead role. |
