French comic artist Joann Sfar made his feature debut as writer and director with this ambitious film about the life of controversial French icon Serge Gainsbourg. Episodes of Gainsbourg's life gets a fairytale treatment from early childhood experiences to adult escapades as a rebel and seducing beautiful women. The film is rather dull and lifeless for Gainsbourg whose life was anything but. It shows Sfar's inexperience in cinema whose visual flair can't compensate for character development. The cast that includes Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon and Laetitia Casta is assembled more to look like their famous counterparts than their performances to breath life into them. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
French comic artist Joann Sfar made his feature debut as writer and director with this ambitious film about the life of controversial French icon Serge Gainsbourg. Episodes of Gainsbourg's life gets a fairytale treatment from early childhood experiences to adult escapades as a rebel and seducing beautiful women. The film is rather dull and lifeless for Gainsbourg whose life was anything but. It shows Sfar's inexperience in cinema whose visual flair can't compensate for character development. The cast that includes Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon and Laetitia Casta is assembled more to look like their famous counterparts than their performances to breath life into them. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment