Gainsbourg (Blu-ray) (2010)

"Inventive and enjoyable...  Boston Globe
"...a lively bout between bio-pic and fairy tale.  The New Yorker
"...evocative and faithful...  Variety

Features

French, English

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Music Box Films
	Release Date: 3/20/2012
	Running Time: 122 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2010
	UPC: 00736211214959
	Number of Discs: 2
Audio & Video
	Available Audio Tracks:
	Video: (unknown/unconverted)
Aspect Ratio

	Doug Jones
	Eric Elmosnino
	Lucy Gordon
	Laetitia Casta
	Anna Mouglalis
	Philippe Katerine - Co-Star
	Alice Carel - Co-Star
	Sara Forestier - Co-Star
	Mylène Jampanoï - Co-Star
	Deborah Grall - Co-Star
	Kacey Mottet Klein - Co-Star
	Angelo Debarre - Co-Star
	Ophelia Kolb - Co-Star
	Gregory Gadebois - Co-Star
	Le Quatuor - Co-Star
	Roger Mollien - Co-Star
	Razvan Vasilescu - Co-Star
	Francois Morel - Co-Star
	Philippe Duquesne - Co-Star
	Dinara Droukarova - Co-Star
	Yolande Moreau - Co-Star
	Claude Chabrol - Co-Star
	Joann Sfar - Screenwriter
	Jerome Brezillon - Photography
	Guillaume Schiffman - Director of Photography
	Serge Gainsbourg - Music Performer
	Daniel Sobrino - Sound
	Fabienne Bressan - Hairstylist
	Gill Robillard - Makeup
	David Marti - Special Effects
	Montse Ribe - Special Effects
	Yann Cuinet - Assistant Director
	Joann Sfar - Director

Awards

Cesar Awards (2011)
	Eric Elmosnino, Winner, Best Actor
	Joann Sfar, Winner, Best First Film
Tribeca Film Festival (2010)
	Eric Elmosnino, Winner, Best Actor
Sacramento French Film Festival ( )
	, Winner, Audience Award

Hollywood Reporter
"Eric Elmosnino's impersonation of Gainsbourg in his drink-sodden progress from struggling painter to cabaret performer to aging proto-punk is a highly impressive piece of work." 02/01/2010

Sight and Sound
"[I]ts combination of realist narrative and poetic animation makes it both a touching biopic and an inspired musical." 08/01/2010

Uncut
"Eric Elmosnino excels in the lead role. Not only does he look like Serge, but he carries himself with the impassive majesty of a silent movie star..." 07/23/2010

Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "Eric Elmosnino miraculously nails Gainsbourg's louche, lupine suavity and beguiling vulnerability..." 01/07/2010

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Eric Elmosnino is startlingly convincing in the title role.." 02/01/2011

Los Angeles Times
"Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious....A portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth." 09/02/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"There's one good reason to see this biopic of the French pop-cabaret songster Serge Gainsbourg, and that's its lead actor, Erik Elmosnino." 09/09/2011

Los Angeles Times 8 of 10
Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" is a portrait of creativity from the inside, a serious yet playful attempt to find an artistic way to tell an emotional truth. Though it's clearly on his side, "Gainsbourg" doesn't flinch when its subject goes deeper and deeper into alcoholism and bad behavior. Screenwriter Sfar's final word on his difficult, fascinating man is "I prefer his lies to his truth,' his dreams to his reality. It's not hard to see why. - Kenneth Turan

Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
The movie unreels his musical biography with an unending series of tastes of songs and performances. You may be surprised by how many you recognize. Why was Gainsbourg a hero? The film leaves the question hanging. I am afraid it was only because, like Sinatra, he did it his way. Which no one can deny. - Roger Ebert