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Artist News
Serge Gainsbourg gets biopic treatment
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 January 2010
The life and death of French musician Serge Gainsbourg has been captured on film in the directorial debut of comic book writer Joann Sfar.
Entitled ‘Serge Gainsbourg: Une Vie Heroique’, the film was originally set to star Charlotte Gainsbourg as her father, although she pulled out of the project prior to filming, to be replaced by Eric Elmosnino. Co-vocalist on the star’s best known hit, ‘Je T’aime’, and Charlotte’s mother, Jane Birkin, is played by British actress Lucy Gordon, and another of Serge’s lovers, Brigitte Bardot is played by Laetitia Casta.
Sfar told the BBC: “I know it was perhaps a foolhardy thing to take on the life of Serge Gainsbourg. He is such an icon. But thankfully the initial reaction of audiences has been positive. A lot of people have come up to me and said – thank you for not taking away our Gainsbourg”.
No UK release date for the film has yet been announced.
