I know just how hagiographic it sounds when I say, and nevertheless say with full sincerity, that being in Anna Karina’s presence is sort of a shocking thing. The French New Wave’s feminine icon — perhaps the screen icon of ‘60s cinema, period, at least if her recent immortalization in innumerable GIFs could count for anything — has often seemed inscrutable: as quick-witted as she is goofy, as likely to indulge in cartoonish physical gestures as she is to display her preternatural beauty, and always hiding something behind the eyes. With that perception established, you might understand why, as she walked down the steps of BAMcinématek’s theater 3 for a Q & A following Jean-Luc Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman, the seemingly innocuous figure almost immediately elicited this thought from myself and, I’d imagine, several others: “Holy shit — that’s Anna Karina.”
That feeling will soon dissipate — not...
That feeling will soon dissipate — not...
- 5/4/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
When we asked our staff to vote on the best comic book movie adaptations, we were afraid the results would consist only of superhero films. While there are many superhero movies listed below, it is great to see a bulk of non-Hollywood films appearing on the list as well. We set out to compile a list of 50 movies but as it were, we ended up with 5 ties, and so the list consists 55 films instead. Let us know if you think we missed something. Enjoy!
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55. The Adventures of Tintin
Spielberg’s first venture into animation is one of his best. Taking notes from the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark playbook, Spielberg crafted another spirited, thrilling, and always entertaining adventure. The Adventures of Tintin is one of the most pleasurable, family-friendly experiences, that boils down to one grand treasure hunt. There’s much to admire on-screen, but it is the spectacular...
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55. The Adventures of Tintin
Spielberg’s first venture into animation is one of his best. Taking notes from the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark playbook, Spielberg crafted another spirited, thrilling, and always entertaining adventure. The Adventures of Tintin is one of the most pleasurable, family-friendly experiences, that boils down to one grand treasure hunt. There’s much to admire on-screen, but it is the spectacular...
- 9/2/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Mad Men, Season 6, Episode 4: “To Have and To Hold”
Written by Erin Levy
Directed by Michael Uppendahl
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC
There is a shot in the middle of “To Have and To Hold” that recalls the towering heights of Mad Men’s fifth season, when form seemed to outweigh all other concerns. A slow, swooping take begins with two silhouettes imposed on a hypnogogic background of swirling color as Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s “Bonnie and Clyde” provides a fitting accompaniment. The camera comes down to reveal Joan’s friend Kate underneath the man she met at the soda fountain, while Joan sits idly by. A friend of the man approaches and joins Joan on the sofa. Expressing a bemused indifference, she begins to make out with him as the camera continues moving and returns its focus to the psychedelic background.
Joan’s indifference...
Written by Erin Levy
Directed by Michael Uppendahl
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC
There is a shot in the middle of “To Have and To Hold” that recalls the towering heights of Mad Men’s fifth season, when form seemed to outweigh all other concerns. A slow, swooping take begins with two silhouettes imposed on a hypnogogic background of swirling color as Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s “Bonnie and Clyde” provides a fitting accompaniment. The camera comes down to reveal Joan’s friend Kate underneath the man she met at the soda fountain, while Joan sits idly by. A friend of the man approaches and joins Joan on the sofa. Expressing a bemused indifference, she begins to make out with him as the camera continues moving and returns its focus to the psychedelic background.
Joan’s indifference...
- 4/22/2013
- by Justin Wier
- SoundOnSight
Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to the recording studio -- the actress has released an entire album of Tom Waits covers, for instance -- so it should come as little surprise that she's put out a new song. The "Avengers" actress has teamed with French recording star Lulu Gainsbourg for the jazzy, sing-speak-y "Bonnie & Clyde."
The song is part of Gainsbourg's tribute album to his father, Serge Gainsbourg. (Johansson's part was initially revealed last year, but this is the official release.) Among other famous faces on From Gainsbourg to Lulu are Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright, and Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. (That collaboration is notable, of course, since Depp and Paradis reportedly broke up after 14 years together earlier in 2012; click here for a listen.)
Johansson doesn't have to do very many vocal gymnastics during "Bonnie & Clyde," but she keeps her part decidedly smokey and sexy. Tres French, as it were,...
The song is part of Gainsbourg's tribute album to his father, Serge Gainsbourg. (Johansson's part was initially revealed last year, but this is the official release.) Among other famous faces on From Gainsbourg to Lulu are Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright, and Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. (That collaboration is notable, of course, since Depp and Paradis reportedly broke up after 14 years together earlier in 2012; click here for a listen.)
Johansson doesn't have to do very many vocal gymnastics during "Bonnie & Clyde," but she keeps her part decidedly smokey and sexy. Tres French, as it were,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
Sound on Sight Radio #320: Best of French Cinema – Louis Malle, Robert Bresson and Francois Truffaut
For his birthday show, Ricky D selects…sad French films? He’ll explain his choice soon enough, just be aware of the all-classic lineup: Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (with an assist from Julian), Louis Malle’s revered 1987 autobiographical coming-of-age drama Au revoir, les enfants (with Justine), and finally the unavoidable early New Wave touchstone Les quatre cents coups, aka The 400 Blows, which Ricky and Simon take on solo.
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Music Playlist:
Gillian Hills – “Zou Bisou Bisou”
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – “No, No, Yes, Yes”
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Music Playlist:
Gillian Hills – “Zou Bisou Bisou”
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – “No, No, Yes, Yes”
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- 5/22/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012
Price: DVD $34.95, Blu-ray $43.95
Studio: Music Box
Eric Elmosnino is Serge Gainsbourg and Laetitia Casta is Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg.
The life and career of French singer-songwriter-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, who’s often regarded as the personification of 1960s cool, is the subject of the 2010 biographical film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.
As a singer-songwriter whose landmark musical output includes such sexually infused and scandalous 1960s songs as “Je t’aime … moi non plus” and “Les Sucettes,” he is often regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians. His impassioned music was matched only by his legendarily excessive lifestyle and love affairs with Europe’s most beautiful women, including chanteuses Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot.
Directed by famed French comic book artist-turned-director Joann Sfar, the film begins with the Gainsbourg’s childhood in Nazi-occupied France and moves through his...
Price: DVD $34.95, Blu-ray $43.95
Studio: Music Box
Eric Elmosnino is Serge Gainsbourg and Laetitia Casta is Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg.
The life and career of French singer-songwriter-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, who’s often regarded as the personification of 1960s cool, is the subject of the 2010 biographical film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.
As a singer-songwriter whose landmark musical output includes such sexually infused and scandalous 1960s songs as “Je t’aime … moi non plus” and “Les Sucettes,” he is often regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians. His impassioned music was matched only by his legendarily excessive lifestyle and love affairs with Europe’s most beautiful women, including chanteuses Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot.
Directed by famed French comic book artist-turned-director Joann Sfar, the film begins with the Gainsbourg’s childhood in Nazi-occupied France and moves through his...
- 2/14/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
And the ex-games wage on! Well, at least in our minds. While formerly wedded hotties Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds may play nice in La La Land, we've got no problem pitting their post-split sex appeal against one another and deciding which divorcee is truly "winning." So what's Scarlett's latest attempt at out-swooning her ab-tastic ex-hubby? A pouty cover of a classic Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot song. But first, let's back up: While Ry has long fit the big-screen super dude role, he took center stage as a single man with his Green Lantern gig. And the flick did pretty well. But it's Scarlett who takes the comic-book cake, 'cause not only...
- 9/7/2011
- E! Online
I’ll never forget the moment I first experienced the pop rapture of Serge Gainsbourg. It was sometime in the mid-’90s (I tend to catch up to stuff rather late — I didn’t hear the Velvet Under- ground’s first album until 1992), and I was in a noisy drinking establishment in my West Village neighborhood called Bar d’O, a name that Gainsbourg — who had a famous fling with Brigitte Bardot — would surely have appreciated. I was on my second martini, and the place was so loud that I couldn’t hear the music all that well. So when...
- 9/7/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Scarlett Johansson can sing! Especially while barely clad.
The blonde bombshell teams up with Lulu Gainsbourg for a sultry rendition of the 1968 hit, "Bonnie and Clyde," which features champagne brand Moet & Chandon. (Johansson has been the celebrity face of the bubbly since 2009.)
The song is in part a tribute album Lulu is putting together in honor of his late father, singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg who passed away in 1991, titled, "From Gainsbourg to Lulu."
The original...
The blonde bombshell teams up with Lulu Gainsbourg for a sultry rendition of the 1968 hit, "Bonnie and Clyde," which features champagne brand Moet & Chandon. (Johansson has been the celebrity face of the bubbly since 2009.)
The song is in part a tribute album Lulu is putting together in honor of his late father, singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg who passed away in 1991, titled, "From Gainsbourg to Lulu."
The original...
- 9/6/2011
- Extra
Scarlett Johansson is really trying to make this music thing happen, huh? The actress' second career may have received a decidedly mixed reception in the past, but she's clearly not letting that stop her. Her newest effort finds her tackling the Brigitte Bardot portions of "Bonnie and Clyde" alongside Serge Gainsbourg's son, Lulu, for the upcoming tribute album From Gainsbourg to Lulu¹. It's... look, I'm not going to complain about the speak-singing, because the original is mostly speak-singing as well. But why did they have to translate her lines into English? It's so awkward! "When a bank's blown up for big money" and "Anywhere downtown, or down in the valley" are just not things people say in idiomatic English (nor are they actual translations of the original French). It wouldn't have been that hard to just [...]...
- 9/6/2011
- Nerve
London, Sept 6: American actress Scarlett Johansson has taken to remaking the classic Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg duet 'Bonnie and Clyde'.
The 26-year-old occasional singer appears scantily clad in a dramatic satin dress in the music video for the remake, the Daily Mail reported.
She is seen pouting and giggling while clutching bottles of champagne throughout the video clip.
'The Avengers' star has collaborated with Gainsbourg's son Lulu for the album he is producing in tribute to his father - 'From Gainsbourg to Lulu'.
Lulu sings his late father's lines in French while.
The 26-year-old occasional singer appears scantily clad in a dramatic satin dress in the music video for the remake, the Daily Mail reported.
She is seen pouting and giggling while clutching bottles of champagne throughout the video clip.
'The Avengers' star has collaborated with Gainsbourg's son Lulu for the album he is producing in tribute to his father - 'From Gainsbourg to Lulu'.
Lulu sings his late father's lines in French while.
- 9/6/2011
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Scarlett Johansson has joined Serge Gainsbourg's son Lulu for a remake of the French legend's Bonnie & Clyde duet, which he recorded with Brigitte Bardot.
The actress has re-recorded Bardot’s part in the 1968 song in English for new tribute album From Gainsbourg To Lulu.
The project features a number of Gainsbourg classics re-recorded by his son.
It's not the first tribute album Johansson has been involved with - her debut release, 2008's Anywhere I Lay My Head, was full of Tom Waits' covers.
The actress has re-recorded Bardot’s part in the 1968 song in English for new tribute album From Gainsbourg To Lulu.
The project features a number of Gainsbourg classics re-recorded by his son.
It's not the first tribute album Johansson has been involved with - her debut release, 2008's Anywhere I Lay My Head, was full of Tom Waits' covers.
- 9/5/2011
- WENN
Don't call Scarlett Johansson unambitious. Having already released an album filled with Tom Waits songs, she's now tackling a legendary song borne of two iconic stars of yesterday.
Johansson joins Lulu Gainsbourg, son of the late French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, in a sultry new rendition of the famed artist's 1968 hit, "Bonnie & Clyde." What's more, Johansson has to take on the vocal duties of the elder Gainsbourg's famous collaborator, actress and sex symbole, Brigitte Bardot.
The song is part of a tribute album Lulu is putting together in honor of his father, called, "From Gainsbourg To Lulu."
Listen to the Johansson version below, and below that, the original Bardot version. Does Johansson do it justice?
Watch:...
Johansson joins Lulu Gainsbourg, son of the late French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, in a sultry new rendition of the famed artist's 1968 hit, "Bonnie & Clyde." What's more, Johansson has to take on the vocal duties of the elder Gainsbourg's famous collaborator, actress and sex symbole, Brigitte Bardot.
The song is part of a tribute album Lulu is putting together in honor of his father, called, "From Gainsbourg To Lulu."
Listen to the Johansson version below, and below that, the original Bardot version. Does Johansson do it justice?
Watch:...
- 9/5/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Scarlett Johansson has recorded a track for an upcoming Serge Gainsbourg tribute album. The Avengers actress has lent her vocals to an album of Gainsbourg covers by his son Lulu. The pair have recorded a new version of 'Bonnie and Clyde', which was originally made by Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. From Gainsbourg to Lulu will be released in November. Johansson sings in English on the track, while Lulu Gainsbourg (more)...
- 9/5/2011
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Miguel Rodarte, producer Wally von Borstel, Saving Private Perez Neil Patrick Harris-Katy Perry's The Smurfs Tops International Box Office, John Lasseter's Cars 2 vs. Cars Comparison Featuring Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Melissa Leo, in addition to Lucas Black, Brian Geraghty, and Deborah Ann Woll, first-time filmmaker Matt Russell's Golf & God drama Seven Days in Utopia opened with a highly uninspiring $1.23m at 561 locations. Seven Days in Utopia averaged an ungodly $2,203 per site according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Not faring any better, Beto Gómez's Mexican comedy Salvando al Soldado Perez / Saving Private Perez drew $670k at 161 locations, averaging $4,161 per site. Remember, all things being equal, the smaller the number of theaters, the higher the per-theater average should be. Now, a clarification: as a non-English-language film clearly targeting Mexicans and Spanish-speakers living in the Us, Saving Private Perez couldn't really...
- 9/5/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
See an exclusive Gainsbourg clip with Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Serga (Eric Elmosnino) talking on the phone. Joann Sfar directs the drama and adapts the script based on the graphic novel of the same title. Also in the cast of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life are Anna Mouglalis, Mylene Jampanoi, Philippe Katerine and Juliette Greco. Pic is now in theaters and is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar.
- 9/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See an exclusive Gainsbourg clip with Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Serga (Eric Elmosnino) talking on the phone. Joann Sfar directs the drama and adapts the script based on the graphic novel of the same title. Also in the cast of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life are Anna Mouglalis, Mylene Jampanoi, Philippe Katerine and Juliette Greco. Pic is now in theaters and is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar.
- 9/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Music Box Films Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino).
French graphic novelist and first-time film director Joann Sfar had an outsized subject to tackle when he agreed to helm his imaginative biopic, “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.”
A movie about the life and loves of Serge Gainsbourg, France’s controversial and beloved musician, could have inspired scorn and mockery if it had taken itself too seriously.
So, like Gainsbourg himself, Sfar just had fun with it.
“It’s so much fun,...
French graphic novelist and first-time film director Joann Sfar had an outsized subject to tackle when he agreed to helm his imaginative biopic, “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.”
A movie about the life and loves of Serge Gainsbourg, France’s controversial and beloved musician, could have inspired scorn and mockery if it had taken itself too seriously.
So, like Gainsbourg himself, Sfar just had fun with it.
“It’s so much fun,...
- 8/31/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Something of a national treasure in his native France, Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat) is the award–winning author of graphic novels, comics, and children’s books, including the New York Times bestseller Little Vampire Goes to School and a fresh re-imagining of Saint-Exupéry’s classic Le Petit Prince. Sfar was a serious student of philosophy at the University of Nice despite his strict religious upbringing (his mother is Ashkenazi and his father Sephardic), but decided to chase his youthful dream of publishing comics. He studied under painter Jean-François Debord at the School of Fine Arts in Paris (Aderf) and eventually became one of the rising young stars of an underground comics movement that included Lewis Trondheim and Christophe Blain. Recently, Sfar has immersed himself in the world of filmmaking, transforming his whimsical comics (think Marc Chagall meets Will Eisner) into equally fanciful, story-based films. Earlier this year in France,...
- 8/31/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For over fifteen years, artist Joann Sfar has been writing and drawing comics and cartoons in his native France, and in 2005, his work was translated into English and published in the United States by First Second Books and Pantheon, his graphic novels "The Rabbi's Cat" and "Little Vampire" receiving quite a bit of acclaim over here. The success of his graphic novel work has allowed Sfar to transition into filmmaking with Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life , a fantasy musical that stars Eric Emosnino as the popular French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, whose controversial relationships with the likes of sexy starlet Brigitte Bardot (a revelatory performance in the film by Laetitia Casta) kept him in the public eye throughout his life. The fantasy part of the...
- 8/29/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Actress Laetitia Casta was shocked when she asked Brigitte Bardot for advice on how to play the screen icon in upcoming Serge Gainsbourg biopic A Heroic Life - because she told her to pretend she wanted to make love with everyone.
Bardot agreed to chat with Casta as the young star prepared to portray her in the film, but the actress was not expecting the veteran to be so candid.
She tells The Hollywood Reporter, "She said, 'When you walk into a room, put your head up and look like you want to f**k everybody. You are the most beautiful woman in the world, enjoy it, it isn't gonna last.'"
Casta reveals she has spoken to Bardot since making the film and she doesn't think the French icon was impressed.
She adds, "Bardot congratulated me but I think she hated the movie."...
Bardot agreed to chat with Casta as the young star prepared to portray her in the film, but the actress was not expecting the veteran to be so candid.
She tells The Hollywood Reporter, "She said, 'When you walk into a room, put your head up and look like you want to f**k everybody. You are the most beautiful woman in the world, enjoy it, it isn't gonna last.'"
Casta reveals she has spoken to Bardot since making the film and she doesn't think the French icon was impressed.
She adds, "Bardot congratulated me but I think she hated the movie."...
- 8/29/2011
- WENN
Taking the best from La Vie En Rose and AMÉLIE, renowned comic book artist Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar. Along the way he romances many of the era's most beautiful women, including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin. Employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that includes many of the musician's greatest hits, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a quintessential time capsule to '60's Paris. Starring Eric Elmosnino, Anna Mouglalis,...
- 8/27/2011
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Biopic Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life captures the compelling saga of one of France's great characters, the infamous, influential, and hugely talented Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosino). See the trailer (posted below); New York Vulture posts an enchanting exclusive clip of Brigitte Bardot and Gainsbourg singing the Bonny and Clyde theme. Comic book artist Joann Sfar directs this portrait of Gainsbourg, beginning with his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, through his struggles as a jazz musician, and then his rise to pop stardom in '60s Paris. And the French musician's amours were gorgeous and sexy, from Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis) and Bardot (Laetitia Casta) to Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Music Box Films will release Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life on August 31.
- 8/27/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Even though that one song "Je T'aime" annoys the hell out of me, I'm really excited to see this film. Serge Gainsbourg, if you were unaware is one of the most influential people for contemporary music and his swagger and sexual prowess was almost as famous as his talent. Seriously, this guy bagged Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin (Birkin bag namesake and Charlotte Gainsbourg's mother) and Juliette Grecco.
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- 8/2/2011
- by Emily Cheever
- Filmology
"Gainsbourg", directed by Joann Sfar, follows the life of French singer/songwriter/film director 'Serge Gainsbourg' (Eric Elmosnino), from his childhood in occupied France, to his rise as an international pop star.
His varied style and individuality made Gainsbourg's songs difficult to categorize, although he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
In 1969, he released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus", featuring explicit lyrics and simulated sounds of a female orgasm.
The song also appeared on the LP "Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg".
Originally recorded with actress Brigitte Bardot, the recording was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.
While Gainsbourg declared the composition "the ultimate love song," "Je T'aime" was censored in numerous countries, with the Vatican declaring the song 'offensive'.
Despite the controversy, the song charted in the top ten throughout Europe, with Gainsbourg writing soundtracks for more than 40 films,...
His varied style and individuality made Gainsbourg's songs difficult to categorize, although he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
In 1969, he released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus", featuring explicit lyrics and simulated sounds of a female orgasm.
The song also appeared on the LP "Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg".
Originally recorded with actress Brigitte Bardot, the recording was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.
While Gainsbourg declared the composition "the ultimate love song," "Je T'aime" was censored in numerous countries, with the Vatican declaring the song 'offensive'.
Despite the controversy, the song charted in the top ten throughout Europe, with Gainsbourg writing soundtracks for more than 40 films,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
We just got the poster, and Apple now has the trailer for Joann Sfar‘s directorial debut, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. A biopic of musician Serge Gainsbourg, played here by Summer Hours actor Eric Elmosnino, it shows how he rose to fame through his classic music, as we expect a biopic to do. Also chronicled are his relationships with legendary women of the day, like Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco, and Jane Birkin, the lattermost of whom he had a daughter with, singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.
I’m sure that there’s an interesting story to tell with the man’s life, but I’m not really getting it from this preview. Even though the cinematography is all quite lovely (as are the women), all I could really think while watching the trailer is “Walk Hard.” That’s a movie which managed to completely deconstruct the musical biopic subgenre, and...
I’m sure that there’s an interesting story to tell with the man’s life, but I’m not really getting it from this preview. Even though the cinematography is all quite lovely (as are the women), all I could really think while watching the trailer is “Walk Hard.” That’s a movie which managed to completely deconstruct the musical biopic subgenre, and...
- 8/1/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Chicago – For the first time, a foreign film festival in Chicago will focus solely on the latest and greatest works from France. On July 22nd, the Music Box Theatre will kick off its three-day inaugural festival of French cinema, featuring eight pictures that have recently garnered praise from audiences and festival goers around the globe. It may prove to be just the ticket for movie buffs bored with summer blockbusters and outdated superheroes.
Bookending this year’s festival are appearances by two major figures in the French film industry. Director/co-writer Jean-Pierre Améris will be present for the opening night screening of his neurotic comedy, “Romantics Anonymous,” starring Benoît Poelvoorde (“Man Bites Dog”) and Isabelle Carré (“Private Fears in Public Places”). The picture was a surprise hit in France, thus rekindling interest in Améris’s acclaimed body of work (his 2004 drama “Lightweight” was screened at Cannes).
One of the country’s most respected veteran actresses,...
Bookending this year’s festival are appearances by two major figures in the French film industry. Director/co-writer Jean-Pierre Améris will be present for the opening night screening of his neurotic comedy, “Romantics Anonymous,” starring Benoît Poelvoorde (“Man Bites Dog”) and Isabelle Carré (“Private Fears in Public Places”). The picture was a surprise hit in France, thus rekindling interest in Améris’s acclaimed body of work (his 2004 drama “Lightweight” was screened at Cannes).
One of the country’s most respected veteran actresses,...
- 7/20/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Music Box Films will distribute Gainsbourg, picking up North American rights to comic book artist Joann Sfar's feature debut. Variety reports that Gainsbourg is a fantasy-filled biopic which marks Universal Pictures International's first co-production with France. The film opens during World War II in occupied France and tells of Jewish boy Lucien Ginsburg, gifted with artistic skills, who grows up to become Serge Gainsbourg, a French music icon. Gainsbourg follows his rise to fame as well as his tumultuous relationships with Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot and Bambou. The film earned eight Cesar nominations, produced by One World Films.
- 2/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Music Box Films will distribute Gainsbourg, picking up North American rights to comic book artist Joann Sfar's feature debut. Variety reports that Gainsbourg is a fantasy-filled biopic which marks Universal Pictures International's first co-production with France. The film opens during World War II in occupied France and tells of Jewish boy Lucien Ginsburg, gifted with artistic skills, who grows up to become Serge Gainsbourg, a French music icon. Gainsbourg follows his rise to fame as well as his tumultuous relationships with Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot and Bambou. The film earned eight Cesar nominations, produced by One World Films.
- 2/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Christmas is over, the sales are slowing down, and the studios have rolled out all their big new releases this week. So while you’re out trying to spend the last of our vochurs, why not check out this weeks new DVD and Blu-ray releases:
The Girl Who Played With Fire: Hot on the heels of the ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ comes the sequel, ‘The Girl who played with Fire’. The new film sees Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring. When two of his researchers are murdered, Salander is framed for the murders and emerges as the police’s chief suspect. Unconvinced, Blomkvist attempts to track her down and find out the truth, but secretive hacker...
The Girl Who Played With Fire: Hot on the heels of the ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ comes the sequel, ‘The Girl who played with Fire’. The new film sees Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring. When two of his researchers are murdered, Salander is framed for the murders and emerges as the police’s chief suspect. Unconvinced, Blomkvist attempts to track her down and find out the truth, but secretive hacker...
- 1/10/2011
- by Kat
- Nerdly
Gainsbourg
Blu-ray & DVD, Optimum
What first impresses about this unusual biopic is how spot-on the casting is: Eric Elmosnino, model Laetitia Casta and the late Lucy Gordon (who committed suicide before this was released, adding an unintended air of poignancy) are the absolute spit of Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. However, what's more impressive is that, despite being armed with a cast that automatically lends such realism, first-time director Joann Sfar turns the life of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg into a surreal fantasy fairytale. Sfar, basing the film on his graphic novel, throws in animation, puppetry and creature FX into the story. To show what Gainsbourg is thinking he has Elmosnino share scenes with Doug Jones (a rake-thin actor who has performed creature roles in Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy) as Gainsbourg's caricature alter ego, La Gueule. With such visual and filmic conceits, Gainsbourg is more about capturing the...
Blu-ray & DVD, Optimum
What first impresses about this unusual biopic is how spot-on the casting is: Eric Elmosnino, model Laetitia Casta and the late Lucy Gordon (who committed suicide before this was released, adding an unintended air of poignancy) are the absolute spit of Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. However, what's more impressive is that, despite being armed with a cast that automatically lends such realism, first-time director Joann Sfar turns the life of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg into a surreal fantasy fairytale. Sfar, basing the film on his graphic novel, throws in animation, puppetry and creature FX into the story. To show what Gainsbourg is thinking he has Elmosnino share scenes with Doug Jones (a rake-thin actor who has performed creature roles in Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy) as Gainsbourg's caricature alter ego, La Gueule. With such visual and filmic conceits, Gainsbourg is more about capturing the...
- 1/8/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
A striking opening scene set on a beach featuring young Lucien Ginsburg asking a girl if he can hold her hand and then being subsequently turned down for being to ugly begins graphic novelist turned director Joann Sfar’s electrically charged biopic. It sets the tone perfectly for what follows as we witness the ups and downs of the one and only Serge Gainsbourg: a man who perfected the art of lust but took quite a few beatings before he learnt life’s vital lesson about true love.
Unlike La Vie En Rose Sfar doesn’t offer us a straight up biopic. The film’s quite surreal imagery is nicely encapsulated in a quite wonderful animated opening credits sequence. What follows from then on is a whirlwind account of the legendary artist that deals with fantasy as well as non-fiction. Gainsbourg was a dreamer and Sfar delivers a film...
Unlike La Vie En Rose Sfar doesn’t offer us a straight up biopic. The film’s quite surreal imagery is nicely encapsulated in a quite wonderful animated opening credits sequence. What follows from then on is a whirlwind account of the legendary artist that deals with fantasy as well as non-fiction. Gainsbourg was a dreamer and Sfar delivers a film...
- 1/7/2011
- by Alex Wagner
- FilmShaft.com
To celebrate the release of Gainsbourg on DVD and Blu-ray, 10th of January, we are giving you three people the chance to win a copy of the French biopic in glorious high definition Blu-ray!
A vivid interpretation of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary artists – singer, songwriter and hellraiser, Serge Gainsbourg. Beginning with an enchanting glimpse at his early life, growing up in 1940′s occupied Paris, we follow the metamorphosis of precocious Lucien Ginsburg into ‘Serge Gainsbourg’, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960′s, until his death in 1991. Tracing not only the major steps in his musical trajectory from obscure pianist to cabaret artiste to major pop cultural phenomenon, Gainsbourg also explores lesser known dimensions of his colourful persona: his Russian/Jewish roots and his aspirations as a painter. Gainsbourg encompasses the seminal moments of his career and glamorous notoriety, including the recording of...
A vivid interpretation of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary artists – singer, songwriter and hellraiser, Serge Gainsbourg. Beginning with an enchanting glimpse at his early life, growing up in 1940′s occupied Paris, we follow the metamorphosis of precocious Lucien Ginsburg into ‘Serge Gainsbourg’, through his successful song-writing years in the 1960′s, until his death in 1991. Tracing not only the major steps in his musical trajectory from obscure pianist to cabaret artiste to major pop cultural phenomenon, Gainsbourg also explores lesser known dimensions of his colourful persona: his Russian/Jewish roots and his aspirations as a painter. Gainsbourg encompasses the seminal moments of his career and glamorous notoriety, including the recording of...
- 1/5/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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1) Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke
Our most-viewed piece of content of any type, by some distance, was this brief news story about the efforts of water mammals in saving the life of an 84-year-old man. It was shared on Facebook no less than 77,000 times.
2) Hitler? A scapegoat. Stalin? I can empathise. Oliver Stone stirs up history
A report from the Us previewing the director's dubious-sounding TV documentary series.
3) The greatest film scenes ever shot
Philip French and assorted directors and producers pick their favourites.
4) The death of Sex and the City
Hadley Freeman dances entertainingly on the grave.
5) Oscars 2010 liveblog: the 82nd Academy Awards as it happens
Five-and-a-half-hours of glamour, gongs and grinding fatigue.
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- 12/23/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Actress Mallika Sherawat makes her debut as a playback singer with her upcoming film .Hisss. and she is teamed up with John Lennon.s son Julian to record one of the songs.The actress recorded a song in a studio in Los Angeles recently, which will be released as part of the .Hisss. soundtrack and promotions..Mallika has recorded her voice singing two different songs. The first of the songs is composed and arranged by Julian Lennon, son of John Lennon from the iconic rock band The Beatles. Upon mixing of the track, the song will be sent to Mr. Lennon for approval,. a source said in a statement..The second track Mallika recorded is arranged by German composer Alexander Von Bubenheim who provided the background score for .Hisss.. Both songs have Mallika singing in a breathy, sexy style reminiscent of famed French actress Brigitte Bardot.s legendary collaborations with musician Serge Gainsbourg,...
- 9/6/2010
- Filmicafe
Joann Sfar’s loving, surreal celebration of the life and work of the iconic French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is one of the more engaging and intriguing music biopics of recent years, largely because the graphic novelist and first time director embraces an unconventional approach to tell the story of an unconventional life.
Gainsbourg (Vie Héroique) loosely traces the life of the often controversial musician from his birth (as Lucien Ginzburg) in Paris in 1928 to his death in 1991 at age 62, covering just enough of the events of his life to appease the uninitiated who are curious as to what all the fuss was about the ‘dirty old man’ of French music.
While most of the ingredients that make music biopics so enticing are present (intergenerational conflict, cool tunes, and of course sex, lots of booze, and rock ‘n’ roll), writer/director Sfar eschews reliance on these tired tropes as an end in and of themselves,...
Gainsbourg (Vie Héroique) loosely traces the life of the often controversial musician from his birth (as Lucien Ginzburg) in Paris in 1928 to his death in 1991 at age 62, covering just enough of the events of his life to appease the uninitiated who are curious as to what all the fuss was about the ‘dirty old man’ of French music.
While most of the ingredients that make music biopics so enticing are present (intergenerational conflict, cool tunes, and of course sex, lots of booze, and rock ‘n’ roll), writer/director Sfar eschews reliance on these tired tropes as an end in and of themselves,...
- 8/16/2010
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Joann Sfar's bold debut is a highly enjoyable – if low on detail – life of the charismatic French singer Serge Gainsbourg
In the 1930s Warner Brothers developed a serious line in earnest, inspirational films celebrating great scientists, liberators and social benefactors, usually played by Edward G Robinson or Paul Muni, dedicated to Longfellow's lines in his "A Psalm of Life": "Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time." But Variety's contemptuous neologism "biopic" stuck, and biography has never had much standing in the cinema – unlike the literary world where, under the larger rubric of "life writing", it's a serious matter both to practise and study.
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane in the 1940s and the Italian Marxist Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano in the 60s attempted to find an inventive form that would...
In the 1930s Warner Brothers developed a serious line in earnest, inspirational films celebrating great scientists, liberators and social benefactors, usually played by Edward G Robinson or Paul Muni, dedicated to Longfellow's lines in his "A Psalm of Life": "Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time." But Variety's contemptuous neologism "biopic" stuck, and biography has never had much standing in the cinema – unlike the literary world where, under the larger rubric of "life writing", it's a serious matter both to practise and study.
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane in the 1940s and the Italian Marxist Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano in the 60s attempted to find an inventive form that would...
- 7/31/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Graphic novelist turned director, Joann Sfar, brings controversial singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg to vivid life in a quirky and brilliant biopic. Starring Eric Elmosino and the late Lucy Gordon, Sfar, directs Gainsbourg with a refreshing insouciance to the laws of film-making.
FilmShaft caught up with Monsieur Sfar to discuss bringing an icon and a true original back to life on the screen. There was nobody quite like Serge…
What is it about Serge Gainsbourg that you admire so much?
Well, first of all his songs … and then he was the only French guy with an attitude on television when I was a kid. Not only me, but the whole country was in love with him … he was always drunk on age and always mentioning sexual stuff … he was harassing people on stage, and yet, he was so intelligent. He also reminds of a golden age of France and French popular culture which has disappeared now.
FilmShaft caught up with Monsieur Sfar to discuss bringing an icon and a true original back to life on the screen. There was nobody quite like Serge…
What is it about Serge Gainsbourg that you admire so much?
Well, first of all his songs … and then he was the only French guy with an attitude on television when I was a kid. Not only me, but the whole country was in love with him … he was always drunk on age and always mentioning sexual stuff … he was harassing people on stage, and yet, he was so intelligent. He also reminds of a golden age of France and French popular culture which has disappeared now.
- 7/30/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Adored and despised in fairly equal measure, Serge Gainsbourg is the subject of an appropriately spiky biopic. By Peter Bradshaw
Joann Sfar's movie-portrait of French musical legend Serge Gainsbourg, taken from his own graphic novel, is as spiky, tricky and arresting as its subject. The movie arrives here flavoured with an awful sadness. Lucy Gordon gives a great performance as Gainsbourg's lover Jane Birkin – with whom he ecorded the steamy Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus – and who is the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Gordon killed herself shortly before the film's release in France.
Sfar boldly sites Gainsbourg's musical career in its political context and unapologetically positions his leading character's talent and complex personality in relationship to his Judaism and French antisemitism. Gainsbourg's Jewish identity is a source of tension. This natural, mercurial rebel found that a bigoted put-down in the press could never be ruled out.
Joann Sfar's movie-portrait of French musical legend Serge Gainsbourg, taken from his own graphic novel, is as spiky, tricky and arresting as its subject. The movie arrives here flavoured with an awful sadness. Lucy Gordon gives a great performance as Gainsbourg's lover Jane Birkin – with whom he ecorded the steamy Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus – and who is the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Gordon killed herself shortly before the film's release in France.
Sfar boldly sites Gainsbourg's musical career in its political context and unapologetically positions his leading character's talent and complex personality in relationship to his Judaism and French antisemitism. Gainsbourg's Jewish identity is a source of tension. This natural, mercurial rebel found that a bigoted put-down in the press could never be ruled out.
- 7/29/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Graphic novelist Joann Sfar creates a surrealist portrait of iconoclast songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (et son Gainsburre). Not content with delivering a standard biopic in the mould of La Vie en Rose or Coco avant Chanel, Gainsbourg is a free-wheelin’ tour through the life and times of a real one-off. He was the man who made being French and chain-smoking look cool.
Gainsbourg wrote some of the best songs ever and his influence is still felt today. Of course he’d a rather shambolic life fraught with romantic disappointments, problems with booze and authority figures. At one point he managed to annoy the whole of France with a rendition of the national anthem highlighting its disturbing blood-soaked imagery. The far-right threatened to kick his Jewish head in.
Depth of knowledge and detail of the man’s life does yield more rewards than for the average viewer. That’s not an overt criticism at all,...
Gainsbourg wrote some of the best songs ever and his influence is still felt today. Of course he’d a rather shambolic life fraught with romantic disappointments, problems with booze and authority figures. At one point he managed to annoy the whole of France with a rendition of the national anthem highlighting its disturbing blood-soaked imagery. The far-right threatened to kick his Jewish head in.
Depth of knowledge and detail of the man’s life does yield more rewards than for the average viewer. That’s not an overt criticism at all,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Sneak Peek the new quad poster supporting the feature "Gainsbourg", directed by Joann Sfar, following the life of the French singer/songwriter/film director 'Serge Gainsbourg' (Eric Elmosnino), from his childhood in occupied France, to his rise as an international pop star.
His varied style and individuality made Gainsbourg's songs difficult to categorize, although he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
In 1969, he released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus", featuring explicit lyrics and simulated sounds of a female orgasm.
The song also appeared on the LP "Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg".
Originally recorded with actress Brigitte Bardot, the recording was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.
While Gainsbourg declared the composition the "ultimate love song," "Je T'aime was censored in various countries, with the Vatican declaring in a public statement at the time, that the song was 'offensive'.
His varied style and individuality made Gainsbourg's songs difficult to categorize, although he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
In 1969, he released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus", featuring explicit lyrics and simulated sounds of a female orgasm.
The song also appeared on the LP "Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg".
Originally recorded with actress Brigitte Bardot, the recording was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.
While Gainsbourg declared the composition the "ultimate love song," "Je T'aime was censored in various countries, with the Vatican declaring in a public statement at the time, that the song was 'offensive'.
- 7/5/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
This graphic novelist's first film, about his idol Serge Gainsbourg, combines animation with a 'creative' approach to the truth
Who is he?
A French graphic novelist turned film-maker, whose research methods on his debut, Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque), were somewhat insouciant.
How so?
Before he wrote the script, Sfar watched all the interviews he could find. "At the end, it felt like I met Serge Gainsbourg at a nightclub at four o'clock in the morning," he says. "He was drunk and told me his life story." Sfar says he couldn't care less if any of it were true.
This isn't your run-of-the-mill biopic, then?
More musical than biopic, reckons Sfar, with flights into animation: his 12-year-old Gainsbourg is followed around Nazi-occupied Paris by an antisemitic caricature/alter ego, "the Mug".
Sfar is a big Gainsbourg fan?
Has been since 15, when he watched a booze-soaked, lascivious Gainsbourg on TV. "I had the...
Who is he?
A French graphic novelist turned film-maker, whose research methods on his debut, Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque), were somewhat insouciant.
How so?
Before he wrote the script, Sfar watched all the interviews he could find. "At the end, it felt like I met Serge Gainsbourg at a nightclub at four o'clock in the morning," he says. "He was drunk and told me his life story." Sfar says he couldn't care less if any of it were true.
This isn't your run-of-the-mill biopic, then?
More musical than biopic, reckons Sfar, with flights into animation: his 12-year-old Gainsbourg is followed around Nazi-occupied Paris by an antisemitic caricature/alter ego, "the Mug".
Sfar is a big Gainsbourg fan?
Has been since 15, when he watched a booze-soaked, lascivious Gainsbourg on TV. "I had the...
- 7/5/2010
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
While its football team somehow managed to make even more of a spectacle of itself than ours did in South Africa, France can at least take cinematic comfort in a different kind of enfant terrible later this month. Here in all his insouciant glory is Serge Gainsbourg, captured on the new quad for Gainsbourg, Joann Sfar's film of his tumultuous life. The biopic charts Gainsbourg’s (Eric Elmosnino) life from childhood in a Jewish family coping with the Nazi occupation of Paris to his rise to pop star and all-round poster boy for Gallic cool, to his death in 1991. When he wasn't dating astonishing-looking women, he was known for his musical shapeshifting, morphing effortlessly from jazz to pop to reggae and eventually electronica. And for smoking loads and loads of fags.Character-wise, Gainsbourg is a Who's Who of icons, including exes Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta), Jane Barkin (Lucy Gordon) and the singer's last partner,...
- 7/5/2010
- EmpireOnline
Model/actress Laetitia Casta ("Luisa Sanfelice," "Asterix & Obelix vs. Caesar") will star in the upcoming French 3D fantasy/suspense film "Behind The Walls" reports Variety.
Set in 1922, the very Victorian Gothic-sounding story centers on a young novelist who moves to a creepy small village to write a book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.
Pascal Sid and Julien Lacombe will direct the $5 million budget feature which will be shot in stereoscopic 3D and is scheduled for release early next year. Pre-production sketches from the project can be found at FilmsActu.
Casta recently scored raves for her portrayal of Brigitte Bardot in Joann Sfar's Serge Gainsbourg biopic which opened in France back in January.
Set in 1922, the very Victorian Gothic-sounding story centers on a young novelist who moves to a creepy small village to write a book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.
Pascal Sid and Julien Lacombe will direct the $5 million budget feature which will be shot in stereoscopic 3D and is scheduled for release early next year. Pre-production sketches from the project can be found at FilmsActu.
Casta recently scored raves for her portrayal of Brigitte Bardot in Joann Sfar's Serge Gainsbourg biopic which opened in France back in January.
- 6/3/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag’s When We Leave (top); Alexandra Codina’s Monica & David (middle); Eric Elmosnino as Serge Gainsbourg, Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot in Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg, Je t’aime … Moi Non Plus (bottom) Feo Aladag’s Turkish-German drama Die Fremde / When We Leave, which recently received six Lola nominations, was voted best narrative film at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. In When We Leave, Sibel Kekilli, the star of Fatih Akin’s 2004 European Film Award winner Head-On, plays a determined Turkish woman who flees her abusive husband in Istanbul, settling with her five-year-old son in Berlin. Once there, she finds herself at odds with her [...]...
- 4/30/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
For our Tribeca preview today, we’re taking a peek at the French biopic, Gainsbourg, Je t’Aime… Moi Non Plus (or Gainsbourg, vie héroïque, depending on where you look), from writer/director/artist: Joann Sfar.
The film examines the life of Serge Gainsbourg, the influential French musician, filmmaker, and actor. In presenting this preview, we’re only showing you the teaser, as presently there aren’t many clips on line with subtitles. You can find another longer look at the film on YouTube, provided by Universal France. The film is based on Sfar’s graphic novel about Gainsbourg, and you can find several incredible illustrations from the director on the film’s website, although you’ll have to navigate through the French menus. One last note, according to the cast notes, Doug Jones will be appearing in the film, which is pretty sweet, as we don’t get enough...
The film examines the life of Serge Gainsbourg, the influential French musician, filmmaker, and actor. In presenting this preview, we’re only showing you the teaser, as presently there aren’t many clips on line with subtitles. You can find another longer look at the film on YouTube, provided by Universal France. The film is based on Sfar’s graphic novel about Gainsbourg, and you can find several incredible illustrations from the director on the film’s website, although you’ll have to navigate through the French menus. One last note, according to the cast notes, Doug Jones will be appearing in the film, which is pretty sweet, as we don’t get enough...
- 4/15/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
9th Annual Festival to Present 85 Feature-Length and 47 Short Film Selections from April 21 – May 2, 2010
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New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
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Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film Boost Festival Reach
New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
- 3/10/2010
- Makingof.com
Director dedicates film to Lucy Gordon, Oxford-born actor who 'sparkles' as Serge Gainsbourg's muse Jane Birkin
Of all the women in the lascivious life of Serge Gainsbourg, there was never any doubt as to who was his leading lady. Jane Birkin, who sang with her lover on one of the rudest pop songs ever made, was the doe-eyed English beauty who would forever remain his muse.
As France prepares to relive its memories of the golden couple with the release on Wednesday of a highly anticipated biopic of Gainsbourg, real-life tragedy has cast a shadow over what should have been a celebration. Lucy Gordon, the Oxford-born actor chosen over 500 other hopefuls to play the role of Birkin, killed herself weeks after filming had finished.
On 19 May last year, after writing a letter to her parents, the 28-year-old former model hanged herself in the Paris flat she shared with her boyfriend.
Of all the women in the lascivious life of Serge Gainsbourg, there was never any doubt as to who was his leading lady. Jane Birkin, who sang with her lover on one of the rudest pop songs ever made, was the doe-eyed English beauty who would forever remain his muse.
As France prepares to relive its memories of the golden couple with the release on Wednesday of a highly anticipated biopic of Gainsbourg, real-life tragedy has cast a shadow over what should have been a celebration. Lucy Gordon, the Oxford-born actor chosen over 500 other hopefuls to play the role of Birkin, killed herself weeks after filming had finished.
On 19 May last year, after writing a letter to her parents, the 28-year-old former model hanged herself in the Paris flat she shared with her boyfriend.
- 1/17/2010
- by Lizzy Davies
- The Guardian - Film News
Since debuting aged 13 with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, on a pop single called 'Lemon Incest', the French-British actress and singer has courted controversy. Last year she starred as a demonic mother in Lars von Trier's controversial film Antichrist. As her third album is released, made with Us songwriter Beck, she talks to Sean O'Hagan about her recent brain surgery and her enduring feelings for her late father
In the summer of 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg had what seemed like a minor water-skiing accident. Six months later, after attending a gala screening in Venice of Todd Haynes's film, I'm Not There, in which she played one of Bob Dylan's wives, she suffered "a seven day headache". Back home in Paris, she went to the doctor for a check-up and found out that she was lucky to be alive.
"They did an Mri scan and found that my brain had been...
In the summer of 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg had what seemed like a minor water-skiing accident. Six months later, after attending a gala screening in Venice of Todd Haynes's film, I'm Not There, in which she played one of Bob Dylan's wives, she suffered "a seven day headache". Back home in Paris, she went to the doctor for a check-up and found out that she was lucky to be alive.
"They did an Mri scan and found that my brain had been...
- 1/10/2010
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
French 60s pop fans have reason to rejoice because the first trailer for the new Serge Gainsbourg biopic, called simply Gainsbourg, has finally been released.
I know what you're thinking and yes, Serge is indeed the father of Antichrist star Charlotte Gainsbourg, but he's also one of the most iconic French personalities in history as well as a massively respected name in contemporary pop music. Oh yeah, and he successfully bedded Brigitte Bardot, so yes, he truly lived a full life.
Synopsis:
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
The trailer is your standard biopic fair, lavishly shot and full of great performances by Eric Elmosnino as Serge, Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin and Laetitia Casta as B.B.
Trailer after the break.
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I know what you're thinking and yes, Serge is indeed the father of Antichrist star Charlotte Gainsbourg, but he's also one of the most iconic French personalities in history as well as a massively respected name in contemporary pop music. Oh yeah, and he successfully bedded Brigitte Bardot, so yes, he truly lived a full life.
Synopsis:
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
The trailer is your standard biopic fair, lavishly shot and full of great performances by Eric Elmosnino as Serge, Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin and Laetitia Casta as B.B.
Trailer after the break.
Embedded video stripped,...
- 12/3/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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