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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life 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. He's not just… PT122M Biography Drama Eric Elmosnino Lucy Gordon Music Box Films
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Reviewed by | Aug 31, 2011

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | DROP-DEAD-GORGEOUS GLaetitia Casta (as Brigitte Bardot) and Eric Elmosnino (as Serge Gainsbourg) in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
DROP-DEAD-GORGEOUS GLaetitia Casta (as Brigitte Bardot) and Eric Elmosnino (as Serge Gainsbourg) in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Length: 122 Minutes; Genres: Biography, Drama; With: Eric Elmosnino and Lucy Gordon; Distributor: Music Box Films

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. He's not just a dead ringer for Gainsbourg (which is to say, he looks like a deeply serious elf with a touch of Nosferatu), he nails his sexy, disheveled poetic machismo. But Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is at once overly episodic and playfully arty, like a TV movie made by Fellini. B–

Originally posted Aug 31, 2011 Published in issue #1171-1172 Sep 09, 2011 Order article reprints